Once champions of free speech, the Left now seeks to shut it down – unless of course the speech parrots the Left’s views. Columnist Michael Barone discusses the Left’s assault on free speech in this piece.
Many people on the political left don’t much like the First Amendment. That seems odd to someone of my generation. In past times people who suppressed what the Supreme Court ultimately ruled speech—student armbands, nude dancing, flag burning—were usually conservatives. But now it seems that it’s mostly liberals who want to shut down speech that offends them, and it’s usually political speech which many people think was the main concern of the Founders rather than the kinds of speech referenced above.
