Kari Lake tweets like Trump: irresponsibly and dangerously. How long until she's banned?

It took a literal insurrection to get Donald Trump kicked off Twitter.What will it take for Kari Lake? She’s emulating him in every other respect on social media. Why not that right-wing badge of honor?Twitter banned Trump after the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection, “due to the risk of further incitement of violence.” Rather than run away from the former president’s irresponsible behavior, some right-wing politicians have embraced it.It’s not just a point of pride. It’s a potential point of profit, a chance to whine erroneously about “censorship” in the next fundraising letter. Twitter hasn’t helped matters by applying punishment willy-nilly, with vague explanations for who gets suspended or banned and why.Kari Lake, the former Fox 10 Phoenix news anchor running as a Republican for governor of Arizona, is taking advantage of Twitter’s inconsistency with a string of irresponsible tweets that have no business on Twitter or anywhere else. It’s the best of both worlds for her. She can tweet Trump-like nonsense to appease her followers.Whether it’s telling college students to defy mask mandates on their campuses, her support of the Arizona audit of the 2020 election or even something as silly as taking a sledgehammer to TVs showing CNN and saying, “It’s time to…
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