To be fair to B-Dubs, this has been going on well before his ascension to defacto leader. Even back on GAF, PoliGAF/PoliERA were all about gaslighting and trolling in the OT with near impunity. Purposely misconstruing arguments, and, yes, bad faith attacks, are a regular thing with that lot. It has only gotten worse on ERA. But, yeah, hoping that B-Dubs will crackdown on the PoliERA trolls or even be even handed with the bans and ban lengths is foolish.
You'd think after Hilary's defeat in '16 PoliERA would be more humble, but they've only gotten more arrogant and up their own asses since then.