The point of the original article is that almost all right-wing politics is saturated in disinformation. The particular combination of disinformation, racism, and incitement to violence or disruption that characterised the_donald, and their persistent inability to rein it in despite the site admins begging them to, led to them getting banned. It is entirely their own fault. Just as I can work up no sympathy for those with self-inflicted bleach injuries due to being stupid enough to listen to him.

> not sure where right-leaning centrists are supposed to go

Given that's basically Biden's Democrat party, I don't think they're an endangered species just yet.

(There is also a disinformation problem on the left, but nowhere near as prevalent in the mainstream politics and news organisations, and a non-aligned smattering of nonsense such as the anti-5G campaign)