Deplatforming Trump didn’t work

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The ex-president is as powerful as ever, and democratic erosion is accelerating

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Their own article contradicts their headline:

Removing Trump from Twitter and other platforms surely spared us a year’s worth of lies and incitements to violence; it was and remains the right thing to do.

But I do agree that:

But in a larger sense, it’s clear that deplatforming Trump did little to improve the underlying political situation in this country. It seems that situation is getting worse all the time.