It is easy to see why the Left has it in for Facebook. It is a raging success of American ingenuity and entrepreneurship, its execs make goo-gobs of money, and exploiting regulatory power to place its platform under Leviathan’s effective control would be a coup for progressive indoctrination. The populist Right’s infatuation with slaying the dragon, though, is asinine. The government is not going to remedy what’s wrong with our culture, and if you think having a speech bureaucracy monitor and purge political expression is going to level the playing field for conservatives, then you obviously don’t need Facebook to find out where the best mind-altering drugs are.

A sign of the times: After Tuesday’s whistleblower melodrama in what still somehow sees itself as the World’s Greatest Deliberative Body, Facebook publicly pleaded with Congress to impose regulations on it. Mark Zuckerberg is no fool. Having achieved behemoth status with all the lobbying expenditures and political palm-greasing that goes with it, he knows he, singularly, can afford to be regulated. Washington tinkering will just strangle any would-be innovators while locking in Facebook’s dominance. The next big thing, the now-unknown burst of human ingenuity that always comes along to make a relic of today’s titan, will be stalled . . . at least for a time.

Of course, we know where Democrats are in all this: The party of Bill Clinton and Larry Summers has devolved into the party of Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, and AOC’s Squad. When the government finally sweeps away the last vestiges of free enterprise, you can thank what now passes for the Right, which is mindlessly morphing into the statist Left, all the while conning itself, and the rest of us, that it is beating the libs at their own game.