I think you're making a false equivalency. His tweets are unpopular with all but his most devoted followers. He is mostly shooting himself in the foot. If he is kicked off twitter, he'll have resources to blast his stupidity by other means. The only difference is that he'll have extra ammo since Americans fall hook line and sinker for cries of "censorship."
Actually since Trump is a walking pile of NPD that cannot control his compulsive need to create drama for attention, banning him from Twitter would force him to go through the protocol of making public statements the traditional way. This would make us (and the world) safer because he couldn’t tweet us to the brink of military action with some “my dick is bigger” nonsense as he has in the past.
I'm often seeing parallels between Trump and Hugo Chavez of Venezuela. What Chavez would do was take over a TV station and rant on air about the traitors holding back their grand revolution.
The only way I agree with this is having to discuss Trump's tweets AT ALL.
I just don't buy the idea that censoring someone makes people convert to their way of thinking. You might fairly condemn the censorship, but if you then become a follower, clearly there is another deeper reason why you aligned yourself with that individual morally and politically. Something has to make sense to you in order for you to adopt it as a belief.
No other American president needed twitter. No other current sitting world leader needs twitter. You can't say the same about Donald Trump. He has no long-form intelligence.
You are looking at this as a rational person, but many American voters are not so rational and would see it differently. If Trump was banned from Twitter, he'd cry "censorship" and many Americans would take him seriously. I'm NOT saying he'd be right, I'm saying many voters would believe him.
I totally agree with you here. But I think it's certain he'd get a short term boost form being banned, even if he wrecks it later. So I really hope they don't ban him right before the midterms...
Many of the stick headed "stick it to he man!" folks I'm talking about actually are swing voters. Sanders was actually very popular in that crowd, though most hated Clinton. That's why appealing to this block of silly people can be useful for winning elections.
Nice straw man there.
Exactly. Our country has a pretty fundamental principle of laws (and rules) applying to everyone equally. Obviously there is a little wiggle room, like someone throwing themselves on the mercy of the court, but having power should not be an automatic 'get out of jail free' card.
His 30% are already lost, they will support him no matter what. I would concentrate on shoring up the 70% and chipping away at the edges of his supporters.
From what I read he was hard right and his annoyance with donnie was not being even more overtly a nazi. I would lay heavy odds he voted for trump in 2016.
There's no move that will consistently appease combustible people like that. Literally anything might set them off one way or another, or change them back again. It's a waste of physical and intellectual effort to try and appeal to them. Just do what's right instead.
of course. I wrongly used the phrase "his base." I meant to appeal to many of the libertarian minded people who often change their minds on which party is "the lesser of two evils."
I half agree with you. We don't know what could happen if Trump is banned from his favorite medium. I have no idea what would happen long term, but feel moderately confident it would help him short term, so I hope they don't do it just before midterms.
Dude, you don't get to call straw man when you yourself brought up the exact type of man I'm mocking!
