There was a major aftershock last week from Donald Trump’s landslide election in November — the public conversion by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to the cause of free speech. The full brunt of Zuckerberg’s capitulatory announcement of his intention to remove all censorship practices from Facebook has yet to be felt. But the immediate significance is very clear — a total conservative victory, hard earned by Elon Musk.
“Buy your own Twitter,” progressives sneered when conservatives complained. Elon Musk did just that — and saved the country.
Only less than a year ago, Biden regime acolyte Zuckerberg had directly taken on Musk’s new free speech platform Twitter with an Instagram counterpart, Threads. Liberals gleefully proclaimed this “the Twitter Killer.” Today, Threads is hanging by a — you know. In his surrender video, Zuckerberg not only promised to do away with Facebook’s progressive fact checkers but duplicate X’s Left-crushing “Community Notes.” He later added symbolic insult to leftist injury by ordering the removal of tampons from men’s bathrooms at Meta. This was a fitting win in Elon Musk’s big gamble of two years ago.
Outraged by the blanket censorship of conservative expression on social media, Musk spent $44 billion buying Twitter, to leftist mockery, opprobrium, and economic threat. The final straw for Musk was Twitter’s suspension of the rightist satirical site, The Babylon Bee, for naming Biden’s ridiculous Assistant Secretary for Health Rachel (Richard) Levine as its “Man of the Year.” Now with 4.5 million followers on X, The Babylon Bee got the next to last laugh. The last laugh goes to Musk.
But as we bask in the glow of his, and our, triumph, while awaiting Trump’s Inauguration Day next Monday, we mustn’t forget how close the country came to disaster. “Freedom is just one generation away from total extinction,” Ronald Reagan forebodingly said. And this generation almost blew it. What could have ended was not just a country of 250 years, but a civilizat...
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