Twitter-in-Chief: ‘We Will Shut Them Down’
By Matt Homer
“We will heavily regulate them or shut them down.” –Donald J. Trump
Recently, I was reading a 2017 article published in The Guardian, written by Sophie Pinkham. Pinkham, writing about Russia’s annexation of Crimea, said; “For the moment, Putin is taking a leaf out of Stalin’s book, blaming every problem on external enemies, internal wreckers or incompetents.”
Sound familiar?
It’s the fake news media, it’s the Democrats, it’s sleepy Joe, it’s Obamagate, it’s the deep state, it’s Chi-na, it’s Joe Scarborough, it’s Mitt Romney, it’s Jeff Sessions, it’s even Fox News, on occasion.
How many people have walked through the revolving door of the Executive Branch of Government? How many Inspectors General has he fired?
When is it going to be the most powerful man in the world taking responsibility for the job that he applied for, and when will the people who hired him do the same?
When does the buck stop here?
Remember when the Republican Party claimed to be the Party of personal responsibility?
Well, it has been hijaked, bound, gagged, and rebranded, and I hear it will soon be reduced to a platform that can fit on a postcard.
Now, it is led by a petulant child who needs the adults in the room to demand he put up his phone and go to work, or no Big Macs for dinner.
Come to think of it, that’s what I have to tell my children. I think it’s time the GOP told their man-child the same.
The GOP’s problem is not the Democratic Party or Joe Biden; it’s our own. So, we can continue to deflect, ignore, pretend, or wait it out, which will be too late in my opinion.
Or, we can take the beam out of our own eye, so we can see the splinter in our brothers’.
Background:
–Trump signs executive order aimed at social media companies after fuming over fact-check
–Executive Order on Preventing Online Censorship
Matt Homer is a former pastor, congressional staffer, political operative who worked on both the 2016 Trump campaign and the 2012 Romney campaign, elected political official in Virginia’s 6th Congressional District, and lobbyist.
