It seems as though the lesson most took from the era of the blacklist is that it is awful that people on the left were censored, but anyone else is fair game.
No, I'm not a right winger. Never have been and never will be. I wouldn't even have considered voting for Trump. But celebrating people for being award worthy one day and erasing them from consideration a day later because you don't like their politics? Ridiculous is too soft a word. Myopic is more like it.