Let the people find the truth: As Biden’s censorship wall falls, a welcome return to open society

Frida Ghitis : In an open society, perspectives on reality confront one another in forceful competition.

She says Biden administration tried to impose by threat or mandate a version of reality that brooked no discussion.

The administration became, in its own eyes, the guardian of truth, but it was almost invariably wrong.

Ghitis says Biden people, being wrong on almost everything, decided to sanctify error.

The open society was closed for repairs until further notice.

Frida Ghitis: In Biden 's farewell address, he railed about misinformation and disinformation enabling the abuse of power’ She says the justification for destroying the open society was that ordinary people can’t handle the truth.

Ghitis asks: Will Trump and his fellow rebels succeed where the Biden cabal so dismally failed? She says Thomas Jefferson understood that the question of state guardianship over truth was of supreme importance.

President Trump and his administration have been left an extraordinary number of messes to clean up, both at home and abroad.

Nothing, however, is more important, than the restoration of the open society to Americans of all persuasions, he says.

In his first day in office, he signed an executive order that declared “Government censorship of speech is intolerable in a free society”.