Trump Day 2: Restore freedom of speech
By Mark Alexander
web posted December 9, 2024
Oh the irony...
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg joined Donald Trump for dinner at Mar-a-Lago recently. Zuckerberg, whose mega social media platforms Facebook and Instagram have targeted conservative speech for extinction, is the most prolific suppressor of free speech on the planet.
In fact, his company banned Trump's social media accounts on January 7, 2021, and only partially restored them two years after Trump left office.
But in July, after the first failed assassination attempt against Trump, Zuckerberg expressed a strong admiration for how Trump immediately responded: "Seeing Donald Trump get up after being shot in the face and pump his fist in the air with the American flag is one of the most badass things I've ever seen in my life." At the time, Zuckerberg rolled back some restrictions on Trump's Facebook and Instagram accounts.
Regarding Zuckerberg's visit, Trump policy advisor Stephen Miller said the Meta CEO "made clear that he wants to support the national renewal of America under Trump's leadership," and he sees Trump as an "agent of change and ... prosperity." But I suspect a major factor is also that Zuck is envious of the now-well-established relationship between Elon Musk and Trump, and he wants in on the action.
The Mar-a-Lago meeting was not only ironic because of how hard Zuckerberg tried to silence Trump but also how he and his vast empire of leftists have endeavored to silence conservative media nationwide. They have constantly restricted our accounts on Facebook and Instagram for completely indefensible reasons, including most recently, a meme just before the election about the failed Harris/Walz "joy" campaign. The result is that our highly engaged audience is only allowed to see about 2% of our content.
While we have all the data on targeted speech suppression, our social media constituency has no idea what they are not seeing. Until Congress takes some action to reverse the suppression of free speech rights, we have no legal recourse.
That notwithstanding, I think it is a very positive move that Zuckerberg sought and was granted the Mar-a-Lago meeting.
Trump et al. are facing a colossal challenge come January — trying to clean up the endless domestic and foreign policy failures the Biden/Harris regime is leaving in its wake.
But there are two issues that Trump and Congress must include among their highest priorities ahead of the 2026 midterm election.
I know we are still basking in the light of the most recent election and the biggest comeback in presidential history. Do we really need to contemplate the next election?
The answer is, emphatically, YES!
I am sure you know that the Demos have a long-term strategy to establish a permanent majority. Their success depends on two tactics — and they are already excelling in both.
The first strategy is rigging elections with systemic ballot fraud on a national scale.
They have already mastered the second strategy — the massive collaboration to systemically suppress conservative speech.
Fortunately, we have a reprieve to go after this corruption. The Demos' 2024 strategy had a BIG problem: The Harris/Walz ticket was, to put it kindly, uninspiring. Despite the bulk-mail registration and balloting in states with no voter ID requirement, along with all the Leftmedia bias and conservative speech suppression, they still could not pull off a win.
Humorously, leftist Demos are now blaming free speech for Trump's victory.
But the Trump/Vance popular vote margin was below the 50% mark, which is to say, this was no landslide mandate.
Amid all the upcoming challenges the Trump team and Congress will face, addressing systemic voter fraud and speech suppression must be a high priority if we expect to build majorities in the House and Senate in the 2026 midterms, or ever again, for that matter. That would include the prospect of a decisive JD Vance win in 2028.
Two weeks ago, I detailed the first issue in "Trump Day 1: Demolish the Demos' Rigged Midterm Election Strategy."
And I mentioned the second issue: "Over the last four years, Democrats have orchestrated a comprehensive effort to suppress conservative speech by collaborating with their Leftmedia publicists and social media platforms in order to keep a chokehold on public opinion.
These two tactics are the most perilous threat to the future of American Liberty.
Elon Musk gets it. "I acquired X in order to preserve freedom of speech in America, the First Amendment, and I'm going to stick to that," he declared in March. "And if that means making less money, so be it." And we all owe him a debt of gratitude.
Day 2, the Trump administration must do everything within its power to restore freedom of speech on the big social media platforms, where most Americans now get their news. 
Mark Alexander is the executive editor of the Patriot Post.
