New York Post By Abigail Shrier
Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen recently expressed what many felt at the re-election of Donald Trump: not triumph so much as relief.
President-elect Trump’s cabinet appointees understand the full extent of censorship in the country, writes Post columnist Abigail Shrier. Photo by Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC
“I hope this last 10 years increasingly is just going to feel like a bad dream,” he told podcast host Joe Rogan. “I can’t believe we tolerated the level of repression . . . and anger and . . . emotional incontinence and . . . cancellation campaigns.”
Much of it was orchestrated or encouraged by our government.
One could say many things about Trump’s Cabinet picks. At times, they seem to embody Government by Middle Finger.
But they also, undeniably, represent Government by the Canceled: an assemblage that doesn’t need to be reminded of the administrative state’s ability to coerce the American public by calling in favors from Big Tech or pulling the levers of regulation, audit or investigation. Many have experienced such treatment firsthand.
Censored & harassed
Tulsi Gabbard, Trump’s pick to lead the intelligence community, was briefly placed on a government watch list, she says, for criticizing Kamala Harris.
The Biden White House and surgeon general pressured social-media companies to censor Stanford epidemiologist Jay Bhattacharya’s attempts to warn the public that the COVID lockdowns were the biggest policy error in American history; Trump named Bhattacharya to head the National Institutes of Health.
And Elon Musk, appointed to lead a newly created Department of Government Efficiency, knowingly overpaid for Twitter to give Americans a sphere for free speech…
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