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A few years ago I wrote an article on the Obama-Trump 'one-two punch' to America's political culture. I argued that Obama's rule and the Trump reaction to it would damage America's political culture of rule of law, comity, and practical
compromise. Approximately a year ago I wrote articles about the authoritarianization or 'Putinization' of America and also looked at political culture among other aspects of American politics and their decay under
mounting Democrat Party (DP)
authoritarianization. Now we have very firm evidence of these trends.
For example,
a new Pew Research opinion survey demonstrates that DP members and supporters now support authoritarian censorship by an overwhelming majority. Asked whether "(t)he U.S. government should take steps to restrict false information online, even if it limits freedom of information," among Democratic and Democratic leaning partisans, 40% agreed in 2018 and now
an astonishing 65% or just under two thirds of Democrats want the government to censor speech. Among Republicans (those whom DP partisans and supporters are now routinely calling 'fascist,' 'white supremacists', and 'populist' Trumpers) the percentages were 37 in 2018 and now 28 in 2021.
When asked whether big tech companies should censor, 76% of Democrats answer affirmatively, while only 37% of Republicans do so. It is important to note that this poll was taken in a context of continuing Big Tech censorship and similar censorship of the Republican Party and of its presidential candidate and his supporters during the 2020 elections on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and other such fora and the Joe Biden administration.
Comment: What's more surprising is that Hawley didn't get banned from Twitter for his comment