You’ve bought into a completely wrong take here. This is not at all what happened. The media kowtows to Trump and the GOP at every opportunity, and has helped create this nonsense CW you are parroting. Twitter is overrun with bots and full-on racism and Nazism and you’re saying Dems bowed to that? You have been fooled.
He meant the "formerly twitter crowd". In my interpretation, he means the outspoken social justice crowd that was trying to institute a McCarthy-esque purge of all that is racially/socially offensive.