Of course. So are their allies in the Trump admin, note also the abuse of the flagging mechanism to take down any news that might not portray them in the best light.

Politics are indiscriminately flagged. People don't come to HN to read politics.

This is simply not true, this very submission sits comfortably on the front page, so does

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47522709

and

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47518281

and

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47523106

and

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47523169

Unless of course you mean "politics" as in everything you don't like is "politics".