The issue is Trump and Sanders. In the US establishment politics has had a complete, and absolutely uncontested, grasp of control of control. 'Establishment' i

The issue is Trump and Sanders. In the US establishment politics has had a complete, and absolutely uncontested, grasp of control of control. 'Establishment' in this case is mostly a translation to indenture to corporations and other well monied special interests, including banks. Corporations put politicians into office using their money. Politicians repay them by legislating unreasonably favorably on behalf of corporations. Rinse, wash, repeat. And to date it's always been easy for establishment backed politicians to win. Give heavily focus tested response and speeches. Call your opponent unelectable in primaries, unpresidential if somebody somehow makes it to the general, and of course pile on the attack ads. And then have the media, which is owned by the same people funding your presidential run, give you biased and preferential coverage. That didn't work this election. Trump won the presidency on an anti-establishment platform, and Sanders came incredibly close to winning a primary that was completely stacked against him. And he did it running on a platform where he openly referred to himself as a democratic socialist. The DNC no doubt viewed him as something that could help unite the further left individuals into the DNC once he was handily defeated. That his loss was anything but 'handy' is probably something that was never even considered. It seems the idea is now to try to restrict political speech to only coming from approved sources in approved ways. And I expect in part it's also an attempt to prevent the outright collapse of the DNC. Hillary gained fewer votes in 2016 than Obama did in 2012, and millions fewer than he did in his 2008 election. Just from 2012 to 2016 the US voting age population increased by 15 million - the majority of which ought, demographically, lean democrat. Taking eyes off a failure of that magnitude requires a comparably magnificent distraction. Enter Red Scare 3.0.