Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen recently expressed what many felt at the re-election of Donald Trump: not triumph so much as relief. "I hope this last 10 years increasingly is just going to feel like a bad dream," he told podcast host Joe Rogan. "I can't believe we tolerated the level of repression . . . and anger and . . . emotional incontinence and . . . cancellation campaigns." Much of it was orchestrated or encouraged by our government.
But they also, undeniably, represent Government by the Canceled: an assemblage that doesn't need to be reminded of the administrative state's ability to coerce the American public by calling in favors from Big Tech or pulling the levers of regulation, audit or investigation. Many have experienced such treatment firsthand.
The Biden White House and surgeon general pressured social-media companies to censor Stanford epidemiologist Jay Bhattacharya's attempts to warn the public that the COVID lockdowns were the biggest policy error in American history; Trump named Bhattacharya to head the National Institutes of Health.
At takeover, Musk immediately released the Twitter Files, revealing a coordinated effort by the Biden administration to censor the speech of Americans whose views it disfavored. The Biden administration repaid Musk by targeting his businesses with unprecedented levels of regulatory harassment.
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