The “Occupy Democrats” emerged from the silly “Occupy Wall Street” protests and say they are “a merger of the goals and interests of Occupy with those of the Democratic Party.” What they oppose is, in no particular order, Donald Trump, capitalism, and freedom of speech and of the press. They apparently, to judge from the cartoon published on their Facebook page, blame conservative election victories on President Ronald Reagan, who enabled Rush Limbaugh to gain an audience — not that he had “Talent on loan from God” — and then Fox News, the Drudge Report and the Koch brothers, then Alex Jones, Steve Bannon, and inevitably Donald Trump. I’m only surprised that they didn’t include Twitter —  I refuse to call it 𝕏 — and Facebook.

We have reported many times on now thankfully former President Joe Biden’s attempt to create a Ministry of Truth under the Department of Fatherland Security, called the “Disinformation Governance Board”, and how we were fortunate that it failed. The left were aghast when Elon Musk was trying to buy Twitter, because they were afraid that conservatives might use Twitter more successfully, and the very lovely Taylor Lorenz, who wants to force us all to wear face masks forever, blamed the failure of that Board on “right-wing attacks.” My good friend — we’re such good friends that she has blocked me on Bluesky — Amanda Marcotte, who exercises her own freedom of speech and of the press on Salon, wanted the government to take over Twitter while The Philadelphia Inquirer’s far-left columnist Will Bunch suggested it “should exist more as a semi-public utility than as an entity that a man with a spare $44 billion can just light on fire.”

Of course, they made their proposals in 2022; I’m guessing that they’re now glad that Donald Trump doesn’t control Twitter!

Mr Bunch? Now he’s saying that we are “living in Hell” because the editorial pages of The Washington Post will be directed by Adam O’Neal, formerly of The Wall Street Journal and The Economist.

Most of the other major newspapers in this country have liberally-oriented opinion pages, including The New York Times and especially Mr Bunch’s Philadelphia Inquirer. How the Post’s opinion pages stressing “economic and personal liberty” has us “living in Hell” when there are plenty of publications which take a more leftward approach makes sense only if Mr Bunch doesn’t believe in freedom of speech and of the press for opinions he does not share.

Today’s left champion ‘diversity’, just as long as it’s not a diversity of opinions.