{"id":848,"date":"2023-01-31T09:13:11","date_gmt":"2023-01-31T14:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=848"},"modified":"2023-01-31T09:13:12","modified_gmt":"2023-01-31T14:13:12","slug":"video-leftist-talking-heads-claim-letting-trump-back-on-facebook-will-destroy-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=848","title":{"rendered":"Video: Leftist Talking Heads Claim Letting Trump Back On Facebook Will \u201cDestroy Democracy\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Reacting to the news that Facebook is to allow President Trump access to its platform after a two year ban, leftist \u2018journalists\u2019 on MSNBC claimed that it will \u201cdestroy democracy\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump derangement syndrome is well and truly back, with New York Times editor Mara Gay, Lincoln Project co-founder George Conway, and historian Jon Meacham crying about Meta helping to \u201ctake down the country\u201d by allowing Trump to return.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Conway said \u201cThey think, \u2018Well oh, the fire\u2019s out, so even though this guy has a cache of matches and gasoline that he carries around with him, let\u2019s let him just play with matches again.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meacham described Facebook\u2019s decision on Trump as a \u201cdevil\u2019s bargain\u201d claiming that Meta needs more money and Trump needs to gain relevance again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIf you are one of these companies, do you want to be the means by which an autocrat mounts an assault on the Constitution itself?\u201d&nbsp;he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gay chimed in \u201cAs a country or as a company, you don\u2019t want to hand over the keys to democracy to have someone destroy that democracy. Do you want to be that institution that really helps take down the country?\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She went on to compare Meta\u2019s decision to reinstate Trump to chemical companies pushing for wars so they can sell weapons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">NYT&#39;s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MaraGay?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MaraGay<\/a> on Meta reinstating Trump: &quot;Do you want to be that institution that really helps take down the country?&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/43RCDjOQRA\">pic.twitter.com\/43RCDjOQRA<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tomselliott\/status\/1618584432860073984?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 26, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More video below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/video.foxnews.com\/v\/embed.js?id=6319293651112&#038;w=466&#038;h=263\"><\/script><noscript>Watch the latest video at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\">foxnews.com<\/a><\/noscript>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Original Article: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newswars.com\/video-leftists-talking-heads-claim-letting-trump-back-on-facebook-will-destroy-democracy\/\">https:\/\/www.newswars.com\/video-leftists-talking-heads-claim-letting-trump-back-on-facebook-will-destroy-democracy\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reacting to the news that Facebook is to allow President Trump access to its platform after a two year ban, leftist \u2018journalists\u2019 on MSNBC claimed that it will \u201cdestroy democracy\u201d. Trump derangement syndrome is well and truly back, with New York Times editor Mara Gay, Lincoln Project co-founder George Conway, and historian Jon Meacham crying about Meta helping to \u201ctake down the country\u201d by allowing Trump to return. Conway said \u201cThey think, \u2018Well oh, the fire\u2019s out, so even though [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":849,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848\/revisions\/849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}