To hear prominent leftists tell it, we’re just days, if not minutes, away from jackbooted, MAGA hat-wearing thugs breaking down the doors of valiant leftist truth-tellers at 4 a.m., and hauling them off to the gulag for daring to criticize the Führer Trump.
Yeah, I’m mixing my totalitarian metaphors, but you get the idea.
If you believe Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Kamala Harris, and a host of others, “our democracy” is hanging by the weakest, thinnest of threads, and here comes Orange Man Bad with a pair of scissors. Yet the people who have really been shredding the freedom of speech in America are the ones who are now crying the loudest.
Hillary Clinton wrote on Friday: “In America, we defend free speech in terrible times. We defend free speech even when it’s offensive. We defend free speech.” That sounds stirring, all right — does she still have her presidential campaign speechwriters on the payroll? Yet for all her stirring verbiage, Hillary’s commitment to free speech didn’t even extend to X commenters, as she restricted comments on her post.