Source: Garrison Center
by Thomas L Knapp
“There’s nothing new about ‘jawboning,’ the practice of politicians and bureaucrats using political condemnation, often coupled with regulatory or legal threats, to bludgeon private sector actors into submission. … Everyone with so much as a smidgen of morality and/or common sense — and even most Republicans! — condemned that kind of jawboning when Biden and Co. did it. Everyone with so much as a smidgen of morality and/or common sense — and even most Democrats! — condemns it when Trump and Co. do it. … Using government threats to suppress discussions the government doesn’t want us to have is both an evil in itself and a reversal of proper roles.” (09/20/25)