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There's also the factor that, even were she to uninvolve herself with identity politics, many of the people she surrounds herself with (whether in friend circles, fanbase, etc) continue to define themselves by their commitment to their politics. So if everyone around her behaves and believes a certain way and/or validates this, then it becomes harder to find an "out". It's a similar circumstance to, like, say you're overweight and you have a group of fat friends all affirming each other's shitty lifestyle choices, and you realize it's unhealthy and start dieting and make progress, and at first they're "happy" for you but then the facade wears off and everyone misses "the old you" and starts sabotaging and dogpiling you at every turn. I feel like that's the sorta thing that's likely to happen to Lindsay if she shapes up.
Honestly I've seen this happen so much ever since Drumpf won the election it's wild. A lot of blogs on tumblr or accounts in Twitter basically stopped blogging about fandoms or fun things and it's just Drumpf 24/7 and their circle of friends echo the same, and if you don't want to talk about that you're a bigot and etc etc etc. So many good blogs went to hell because of this.