This effusion of her ideological id will undoubtedly win her plaudits among the base and a surge of donations. But it’s a terrible idea, not least for the gift it would be to Trump.

The Orange God King would like nothing better than to play the victim; to stand before his MAGA masses with the stigmata of censorship. If Twitter acquiesced to Harris’s demand it would confirm every suspicion in Trump’s base about the intolerance of the left and the bias of the social media companies.

And, of course, it wouldn’t shut him up. Because nothing can.

Suspending him from Twitter would also be a very bad look for the opposition. To be sure Trump devoutly deserves to be cancelled, but cancel culture seems a bad fit for presidential politics and banning the president of the United States does not seem like a particularly effective way of restoring democratic “norms.”