FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS FOR EVERYONE IS THE TRUE AMERICA

“I am pleased to inform our many U.S.A. Patriots that I am designating ANTIFA, A SICK, DANGEROUS, RADICAL LEFT DISASTER, AS A MAJOR TERRORIST ORGANIZATION. I will also be strongly recommending that those funding ANTIFA be thoroughly investigated in accordance with the highest legal standards and practices. Thank you for your attention to this matter!” Could it be that Jimmy Kimmel will be the one to save our democracy? Maybe we won’t have to suffer through another 9/11 to unite us. Trying to eliminate the First Amendment may finally be a bridge too far. Americans are beginning to realign as “We the People” against a wannabe authoritarian. Turns out the Right likes freedom of speech too. Karl Rove (remember him?) pushed back against the friends and enemies distinction in the WSJ. No,” he wrote. “Charlie Kirk wasn’t killed by ‘them.’ ‘They’ didn’t pull the trigger. One person did, apparently a young man driven by impulse and a terrible hate. If there were a ‘they’ involved, law enforcement would find ‘them’ and the justice system would hold ‘them’ accountable. But ‘he’ and ‘him’ are the correct pronouns for this horrendous act…. Using Charlie’s murder to justify retaliation against political rivals is wrong and dangerous. It will further divide and embitter our country. No good thing will come of it.” John Yoo (remember him? The guy who wrote the legal justification for torture during the Bush ‘war on terror’?), pushed back on the extreme powers Trump is claiming to kill those he labels terrorists. “There has to be a line between crime and war,” Yoo said. “We can’t just consider anything that harms the country to be a matter for the military. Because that could potentially include every crime.” Tucker Carlson explained why a government must not be able to limit speech. “You hope that a year from now, the turmoil we're seeing in the aftermath of his murder won't be leveraged to bring hate speech laws to this country. And trust me…if that does happen, there is never a more justified moment for civil disobedience than that, ever, and there never will be, because if they can tell you what to say, they're telling you what to think. There's nothing they can't do to you, because they don't consider you human. They don't believe you have a soul. A human being with a soul, a free man, has a right to say what he believes, not to hurt other people, but to express his views.” And agents from the DHS arrested NYC comptroller Brad Lander and public advocate Jumaane Williams along with ten other city and state elected officials near federal immigration courts when they tried to conduct oversight of people detained by ICE in the building. MAGA and the GOP Congress have attached themselves to something malignant. This was your choice. And you will have to live with the consequences sequences. But the rest of America is waking up. And if you think creating a common enemy is the way to win, it looks like you’re finally right.