Will Trump Get His Twitter Back?
As I've said before, don't hold your breath.
I love trolling communists as much as the next red blooded American. So watching Elon swoop in and shake up Twitter by firing a bunch of H1-B mercenaries has been eminently amusing to watch. The firing of Vijaya Gadde was particularly gratifying. Vijaya was the former chief legal officer at Twitter and the de facto head of handing our permanent suspensions. She is the woman most centrally responsible for getting Trump (and me) kicked off the platform. Good riddance.
She can cry me a river into her multi-million dollar severance package. Or not?
The deeper question now, of course, is whether Elon is going to let Trump and thousands of other censored conservative voices back onto the website. I, for one, do not see much hope in that happening. Musk explicitly won’t answer the question:
He has also said that all moderation decisions will be made by a “moderation council.” In other words, a panel of communists, foreigners, transgender activists, and a token housebroken conservative will get to decide whether the former president gets to have a public voice. Like I said, I have very little hope of anything happening on this front.
The real truth is that Musk isn’t actually in charge of Twitter. He owns it… on paper. In reality, Twitter is a “public-private partnership” governed by an informal unity of the national security state, Democratic Party, major transnational corporations, left-wing activists, furries, and traditional media firms. Musk is not free to treat the platform as his personal playground or to dramatically change the rules of the service. That option is not available to him.
It is hard for most Americans to grasp this, but no one in the West has that kind of freedom of movement. The System is greater than any one loose-canon billionaire who smokes weed on the Joe Rogan show.
Twitter, like a Soviet farming collective, is governed by a bureaucratic mass of commissars and left-wing extremists. There is no single-point-of-failure decision maker anywhere in the organization. Everything important is done by committees meeting in lactation rooms.
This is a feature, not a bug. Elon Musk will be allowed to own Twitter the way Donald Trump was allowed to be President—in name only. The real way to understand our regime is not based off of what people say but by what they do. Calling someone the President is not the same as actually being the President. I think Elon Musk genuinely supports free speech. I doubt, however, that he has any real power to make it a reality on Twitter or anywhere else.
The transnational liberal regime that currently governs the West (and tries to govern the world) cannot withstand free political speech. Censorship is an absolutely necessity to this class, as it is to all tyrannies in particular. A decent republic regime would limit censorship to criminal speech like spreading child pornography and incitement for terrorism, etc. A bad regime, like our own, censors criticism and defenses of moral decency and popular rule because those arguments threaten its very existence.
The White House, DNC, and political establishment cannot allow Donald Trump unfiltered access to the media megaphone because that access would fundamentally destabilize their own messaging and narrative. If that were to happen, their rule would collapse. Therefore, I can say with confidence that Donald Trump will not be allowed back on Twitter.
All Joe Biden and his handlers need to do to keep Trump off the platform is make a series of phone calls to Musk and his backers. Problem solved—in the short term at least.
I believer our current censorship regime will remain in place (and become even more extreme) as time goes on. Until the regime faces a crisis it cannot get out of—think serious economic catastrophe, insurgency, or nuclear war—it will continue to turn up the pressure on its political opponents. The fanatical Left has chosen to double down and it owns every height of political and economic power in the country.
So, to answer the question: will Donald Trump be allowed back on Twitter—I sure hope so. But I’m not holding my breath.