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> The day this happened many, even on the left (including me at the time) noted how insane it was that they cancelled the sitting president.

Well, when does the equation change? Or are third parties obligated to function as the radio/TV stations that African rebels co-opt in the first moments of a coup?

I remember being more astonished that it took so long for it to finally happen. If he hadn't been the president, he would have been banned ages earlier. Same exact thing with this settlement - if he wasn't the president it wouldn't be happening. Based on merit alone, he'd stay banned for life.

I see where you are coming from, but I completely disagree - his content is mild, he's just being banned because he's in the enemy's party, among the people running the platforms.

(politically I dislike both right wing authoritarianism and left wing authoritarianism - and I live in EU)

Can you also justify that attribution of "insane" in rational terms? Or do you just mean "reality surpasses fiction in the chain of preposterousness"?

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I was at the time. That was not a lie.

Huh the pandemic must have really radicalised you then I assume, like so many other Americans.