No, plenty of political posts don't get flagged. However on Hacker News posts critical of the current US administration are very often flagged. In fact, there's two examples right now on the Active threads page; https://news.ycombinator.com/active
If the situation looks bad for the Trump admin then the comments will deservedly lambast his actions. But that's incendiary politics so flagged, not for this website etc.
If the situation looks ambiguous for the Trump admin then we're allowed to discuss it because then the discussion is nice and calm and centrist and technocratic.
