Commentary “You Americans think your system of government is so special,” chided the Ghanian student in my advanced constitutional law seminar at Columbia Law School. “It works more or less the same way in Ghana—except that even as children we knew not to ask what had happened to the other half of our class following the change in presidents.” Well, no, that’s the operative difference between the United States and a less-developed country: opponents do not disappear. Or at least that was the difference. On Jan. 8, 2020, the tech giants staged a digital Kristallnacht against 74 million Trump supporters, burning not subversive books and shops (as the Nazis did) but erasing internet content and companies opposed to left-wing ideology. Steve Bannon had his show unplugged by YouTube. Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch, and retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn have been suspended by Twitter, along with (according to Twitter itself) …
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