beggars-opera:

What is almost laughable about all of this is how predictable this recent bout of censorship is. It’s the natural progression of everything Trump usually does writ large. What happened in the past when someone called him out on an injustice? He went on twitter, called them stupid and ugly, took it as a victory if they didn’t deign to reply to his bullshit and blocked them if they did. Win-win situation. 

Now he suddenly has to be accountable when people speak out about him, and he just doesn’t know how to deal with that. Calling them stupid and ugly doesn’t make them go away anymore, because those words have consequences now, and he can’t just block them, because this is bigger than twitter now. Suddenly he can’t win anymore, and he can’t handle a reality where he isn’t a winner. It’s impossible for him to comprehend because he’s been so good at blocking his ears to dissenters that he honestly thinks he is right 100% of the time. So he tries to shut down the means of protest in general as much as he can, shutting off dissenting government employees from interacting with the public and using his officials to discredit unflattering reports about him. It’s the only response he knows. Is it seedy, terrible, fascist? Yes. Is it anything he hasn’t done before? Emphatically, no.