ONE reason why this public shaming will have some legs, for a while is that this current batch of republicans have loudly and clearly written off the rest of us

they wont answer calls
they wont meet in person
they dont do town halls

many like trump himself have said that unless you are an “R” you arent their constituent and they dont care about you

they have vilified and targeted democrats as vile, nasty, traitorous, evil, contemptible etc

if you cut off the people’s voice, if you stop representing them, the public square is all they got left