The left appears to be using a rhetorical trick known as
ignoring that TikTok exists. Yes, conservatives have made this whole affair quite weird, and yes, conservatives are using the sentiments of a relatively small and absolutely inconsequential group of people to stake their claims to, but there was *some* amount of uproar here. The right didn’t invent the controversy, they just made it seem like the people discussing it were movers and shakers on the left rather than random social media users, which is nothing new.