People say there are users who don't want politics on their frontpage, but I think it's just simpler: we have a nontrivial minority of users who are pro-MAGA and like what's going on, so they downvote anything that makes Trump's action look bad. :/
>>zzleep+(OP)
And some HN users are being paid a lot of money to write software that facilitates the actions of this administration and/or further destabilizes democracy.