I still don't get how the_donald participants think that "It's in the rules" is a proper response to my amazement at the main subreddit for our president is so much of an echo chamber that you can be banned for bringing measured discussion or pointing out falsehoods because it's not explicitly pro-trump.
any comment against Trump
It wasn't against Trump. I didn't insult Trump in the least. Literally was just correcting a dude who said that Hillary was blatantly and 100% anti-marijuana - she wasn't. Your fellow the_donald users were even upvoting me. I was being respectful, and I never once insulted Donald.
Would you be upset if /r/atheism banned you for arguing in support of Christianity
Yes! Of course. And they don't, by the way. I remember a troll pretending to be Christian would visit there regularly and he was allowed to post for months before he gave up.
They don't. I don't really visit /r/politics much because it's kind of a cesspool regardless of which side they're pulling for at any particular moment, but I recall plenty of debates with Trump fans that didn't end with them being banned. They do however ban people from either side for being dicks. I've seen that myself.
major shilling problem
See, this is a direct artifact of getting your info from an echo chamber. There is not a "shilling" problem. People who hold opinions that are different than yours are not "shills", they're people who hold opinions that are different than yours. Just because you get no opposition when you're posting in an echo chamber like the_donald where any discourse is literally banned, doesn't mean that facing a ton of criticism when you come out of the cave means Reddit has been invaded with shills.
paid employee
Who the hell would be paying these people still? Hillary lost. This conspiracy theory is freaking absurd.