All this noise about Twitter and Facebook is a bit rich. All the usual current conservative suspects are striking all the right poses, making much sound and fury, signifying nothing beyond their next career move. Sorry, but that is the hard truth. They are who we thought they were; will we let them win anyway?* It is left to the little people to act in this election where the great are trapped in their old illusions.

The villainous Lyin’ Ryan and Senate Republican’ts, led by the deeply China compromised Mitch McConnell, knew and understood the clearly communicated threats from Twitter and Facebook following the 2016 election. We need not rehearse these platforms’ open responses to their candidate being defeated, by operation of our constitutional republic, at the moment they thought would be their ultimate triumph, the left’s answer to the neoconservatives’ premature declaration of the end of history a quarter century earlier.

Ted Cruz was elected in 2012 and has maintained a high profile posture as a constitutional conservative since 2013. Beyond reading a very nice story to his daughters and the nation’s children in a televised filibuster, what precisely has he accomplished in the Senate? Josh Hawley was elected in 2018, so has been a Senator and part of a new, larger Republican majority since 2019. What did he and the other self-styled conservatives extract out of Mitch and the boys as a condition of letting Mitch keep his very lucrative position? Not a blessed thing. None of your heroes made any real move, with the leverage of a growing conservative/populist faction, to compel an immediate course change and real investigation of the real corruption, collusion, election interference, and coup attempt. No one moved to actually repeal the special legal status of Google, YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter. It took the self-destruction this year of that weasel, Senator Richard Burr, to Intel chair, Mitch, and the gang’s boy, to produce even an illusion of a real fight on our corrupt intelligence bureaucracies.