Well, folks in the Sad Puppy faction could have said something on the lines of “yeah, Beale is pretty out there, but we’re not responsible for his opinions, and calling him a Nazi is over the top”. Indeed, IIRC, a few weeks ago, when Torgersen and Correia were feeling pressure to disassociate themselves from Beale, they said stuff along those lines. And said that they had no obligation to go any further in denouncing Beale. But now that Beale has whipped up his own minions into a state of outrage, Torgersen (I don’t know about Correia) is rallying to Beale’s flag, which makes Torgersen’s previous “I am not Vox Day” protestation ring hollow.

(No, you can’t say that he is just taking a principled stand against inflammatory political remarks, because it’s not like he was doing the same favor for victims of Beale’s own invective.)