"While all of us believe in the ideas of free speech"
tldr: not really
Not content to participate in elections, leftists like Pao use people's voting and donating history to try to terrorize them out of their careers. If you disagree with any mainstream Bay Area thinking, don't you dare donate or else you may lose your career. It's one reason why it is such a monoculture here. Disagreement is chased out.
Ad hominems?
How about "large chunks of the population see scapegoating, fear mongering, and abusive treatment of minorities as problematic and wish to signal that to others"?
"We have to stop this fearmonger who will nuke the world, put people into camps, and start a holocaust! Did I mention he is a fearmonger?"
Given the records of these two individuals, I feel YC is better off with this outcome.