Here's my Grand Unified Theory of American aristocratic leftists. They're angry because of things that affect them directly - Hollywood blacklists, casting couchers like Weinstein and worse like Epstein . However they know that if they talk about that they'll be blacklisted and 'never work in this city again'. So they focus their anger on acceptable proxies, basically anyone who doesn't toe the party line of out of touch leftism.
And #MeToo is ideal for this - they can spread a rumour someone they dislike is guilty of sexual misconduct and get them blacklisted.
It's all basically high school, popular kids shit where you pick on outsiders rather than the insiders who torment you. Of course in that environment there's always someone more 'popular' than you, where 'popular' means 'feared'. Weinstein targeted Gwyneth Paltrow, despite her
Hollywood aristocracy pedigree and the fact she was dating an A list actor, Brad Pitt. I reckon Pitt and Paltrow knew they couldn't take on Weinstein. Even Meryl Streep couldn't do that - she called him 'God' to his face.
So when you see Ellen Page denounce the harmless Mike Pence in the best acting she's done for years, you can sort of see what drives it - she entered the business young and probably had a fair few people trying casting couches on her as the price of entry. However she knows if she talks about that her career is over and she'll be back doing TV in Canada again and not earning the big bucks. She also knows everyone around her hates Pence and so denouncing him is safe. Transferred anger is socially acceptable, directing it at the real targets is not.
And I bet with all the #KickVic types, there's something analogous going on. Lots of the most vocal male feminists like Dan Harmon have got some skeletons in their closet and everyone knows it. They also know that people like that are too dangerous to take on. Vic is a safe target and so all their hate can be channelled onto him.
It reminds me the Anti Sex League in Orwell's 1984 - repression and transference producing political fanaticism.