Twitter has the right to suspend whoever they want, and Trump spent months begging them to do so.
But if they want to maintain any confidence in their rules, they need to apply them consistently across the entire spectrum of beliefs.
So far they have not come close to doing so.
Twitter kept Trump's account open because he brought in a ton of valuable traffic, but this week were forced to acknowledge that traffic was also coming from people who were seeking to do harm.
The media did the same thing after giving Trump two billion in free airtime in 2016.
We'll find out soon enough how serious Twitter is about no longer being willing to entertain accounts that promote outright hate, misinformation, and extremist politics.
Trump absolutely deserved to be suspended, but now the real work begins for Twitter to apply that uniformly.
For example, how is the @ChineseEmbinUS account allowed to continue when they spread the most abhorrent misinformation.
You might not consider forced sterilizations "violence," but I guarantee you the Uyghurs who are having it done to them do.
Where does Twitter draw the line?
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-Trump leads men by 6, Biden leads women by 15.
-Trump leads whites by 11, Biden leads non-whites by 54.
-Biden leads by 6 in the battleground states.
I think this is a big reason that Trump's attacks on Biden aren't moving the needle - Biden's favorables are 16 net points higher.
Voters hated both Trump and Hillary in 2016, but Biden isn't Hillary no matter how much Trump tries to turn him into her.
After months of the Trump campaign saying that Biden is mentally unfit and needs performance enhancing drugs just to get through a speech, Americans still say Biden is more mentally sound to serve effectively as president than Trump.
The replies to tweets about COVID-19 are so depressing.
When did politics turn into a religion where people rely solely on emotions while ignoring the evidence, data, and medical experts to follow a leader who blatantly lies every day?
Facts do not care about your feelings.
I fully realize that many medical experts said not to buy masks in February, but they came around pretty quickly once they better understood how COVID spreads.
This idea that we can't change our approach to something is absolutely stupid. Do you still believe the Earth is flat?
As humans we are wired to seek community, but unfortunately that (plus social media) has turned politics into a fundamentalist religion where we shut off any sources that disagree with us, and further celebrate the distrust of experts to maintain plausibility to those beliefs.
These aren't surprising given the national state of the race, but you can see why Trump is having no success with his attacks on Biden - people view him favorably, unlike Trump.
Fox News Poll:
Joe Biden leads Donald Trump in Michigan by 9 points, 49-40.
Biden leads among independent voters by 19, women by 18, and 9 in the suburbs.
Trump again polling below his job approval which stands at 45-54. He's also way below Gov Whitmer who is at 64-33.
Fox News Poll:
Joe Biden leads Donald Trump in Pennsylvania by 11 points, 50-39.
Biden leads among independent voters by 11, women by 17, and *26* in the suburbs.
Trump again polling below his job approval which stands at 43-56. He's also way below Gov Wolf who is at 63-33.