It is not about being too political. Only factual anti Trump articles get flagged.
Political articles are accepted, ignored or there is a redirect to duplicate discussion
Political articles are accepted, ignored or there is a redirect to duplicate discussion
I don't know what data you're looking at, such that you'd only see such a distinct subset of the total, but this is not true.
Non-factual and pro-Trump articles also get flagged—probably more heavily, in fact.
I have seen maybe 1 pro Trump article being flagged. From what I have seen, they tend to be ignored rather then flagged.
Articles that show [flagged] but are not [dead] have actually been flagged less (relative to upvotes) than articles which get flagkilled, i.e. flagged all the way to the [dead] state, where they cease to be visible to most users.
(Here are a bunch of past explanations about 'showdead' in case anyone wants more: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...)