How is it cowardly or deceptive to tell your old friends that it's late and they should get on board and then ask others not to bash Levin? Sorry. I don't get that.
I think the point is that JR calls out Levin as not being a conservative in that post because he's not displaying the same or greater level of devotion as those at TOS.
Levin continues to criticize Trump and as has been seen at TOS, that is "treason" to them.
Then in today's post, JR goes on and on about what a great conservative Levin is.
There's a form of hypocrisy there.
I agree about the cowardice or deceit, don't know that I'd go there.
I think Levin's not being banned on FR is probably a combination of both some degree of loyalty to Levin for having previously defended TOS and attempting to maintain some level of respectability for the site.