Friend, Foe, and Free Speech on Social Media

A genuinely open Twitter would be deadly for our decadent liberal regime.

The American regime’s crusade against social media free speech revealed the radical character of our liberal ruling class. From 2016 onward, the elites and their social media mercenaries waged an unrelenting propaganda war against ordinary Americans who wanted to live decent lives. In the process, they unveiled their hatred of nations, families, and moral norms—anything that bears the smell of order and hierarchy. As the masks went on, the mask came off. The consensus of the oligarchs fractured, however. Elon Musk crashed the liberal propaganda party by taking over Twitter and revealing the rotten internal workings of the previous censorship regime...

It... reveals the fundamental weakness of our ruling class: their power rests on permanent control of the narrative.

Whatever its history in more spiritually robust times, “liberalism” today is an extreme and unbridled philosophy of total conformity. It depends on a gigantic system of social, economic, and political control and censorship in order to maintain its authority....

Enemies are now not only opposed: they are erased from existence, disqualified as legitimate participants in politics....

Trump unashamedly embraced a policy of national greatness. He argued, implicitly, for a return to the old order—to the closed society of laws, borders, citizenship, and real national interest.

This kind of aspiration is modern liberalism’s arch-enemy....

Trump changed everything. His election in 2016 was a “black swan” event unlike anything in post-war history. The Left lost its mind in response, doubling down on every insane policy it could get its hands on....

But this radicalization is not a plan: it is the powerful spasm of a blind monster lashing out in malice and rage. The anti-white rhetoric, blatant double standards, and election shenanigans are the work not of brilliant master planners but of a powerful (though dumb) ruling class trying to will itself back into hegemony....

If Musk carries on with his instinct to truly liberalize the most important public forum in the country... the possibility of another Trump, or even of something greater, becomes almost inevitable....