The purported "abuse" long predates the merger and any involvement of NW elites. Delta's own elites here in FT haven't exactly been enchanted with him in the past, and for exactly the same reasons. His opening salvos with the NW elites in January reinforced those impressions and gave us our own first-hand introduction.

Your postings keep insinuating that it's the recent development of a few people and the "very FTers that they purport to be 'fighting' for". It isn't. That's just the latest example in a long trend.

The only way to undo the damage is for the person in question to be meticulously honest & never misleading in the future and to re-earn the respect that he has lost. There is no other way out of it. Respect is something that is earned, not given on demand.