With Jimmy Kimmel’s ‘indefinite’ benching seemingly coming at the behest of the Federal Communications Commission, Donald Trump is fast-tracking into a new stage of his bid for complete control of America’s institutions.
The announcement by ABC Wednesday that Kimmel’s show was being pulled off the air until further notice was seemingly confirmation of the most extreme assumptions of First Amendment advocates: Trump, as president, will not be satisfied until dissenters are completely purged from sight — and he’s willing to pull the levers of federal power to achieve those ends.
