Remember, the left believes Trump was the result of rightwing hate being allowed to share platforms with civil, good and decent truth-telling people (them)

Since Fox News started they have wailed at the existence of conservative media as dangerous to the country.
They don't want extremists banned. They don't want people associated with white supremacists banned.

They want everyone associated with the GOP and conservative 'hate' movements and orgs banned.

They see this as their chance to finally remove the obstacle to their utopia.
They genuinely want every voice they label as hateful to be erased from society with severe consequences to anyone who shows them mercy.

They see us all as Donald Trump.
They see us all as domestic terrorists.

They want us all gone.
The thing we forget, and well-intentioned advocates for free market autonomy in these matters seem to refuse to accept, is we aren't dealing with a rival political movement.

We are facing an increasingly powerful, dominating system that views our existence as a failure.
They don't want news or political commentary providing different perspectives.

Fox News is responsible for every social ill, act of violence and perceived threat of 'fascism' in America.

They don't want conservatives on social media. Our rhetoric *causes* violence.
They don't want Republicans in office. Republicans hurt the poor, women, POC, LGBT, immigrants and so on. They literally take away healthcare and force women to give birth for Jesus.

They don't want us to exist because **we** are the social problem they believe must be fixed.
This is why they position rightwing minorities, LGBT and women as traitors or lost souls.

They don't see us as holding different views. They see us as being trapped by a system they are trying to dismantle.

Our stubborn refusal of their help is illness or treachery.
Every person arrested at this riot could come from a single group far removed from the mainstream right with years of conservative denunciation and it wouldn't matter.

They are the results of conservative thought. They are the twisted and radicalized victims of rightwing hate.
Trump's 2016 election was the breaking point of decades of leftwing belief in a coming totalitarian rightwing fascist dictator and the result of misguided beliefs in 'both sides' having a voice in public life.

They see all of this as proof crushing suppression is required.
They are going to use every method they can to suppress *all* conservative speech, Republican political activity and challenges to their authority.

They are going to justify it as fighting terrorism.

They are going to try and use this new power to finally erase Fox News Nation.
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