Lately, it’s become fashionable for Never-Trumpers like David French to denounce the president’s new policy of revoking the visas of foreign nationals who agitate for terrorist groups like Hamas. It’s un-American, we’re told, to hold guests to a certain standard or to remove hostile foreigners from our country.
This past week, French posted on X that “we can absolutely and totally dispense with the idea that Trump’s Republican Party defends free speech. We’re witnessing one of the most comprehensive attacks on political speech since the Red Scare.”
Setting aside that the Red Scare was mostly justified (by the 1950s the Soviet Union had, in fact, infiltrated Hollywood, academia, and even the U.S. government), there’s a couple of things to say about this trend. First and foremost is that French in particular doesn’t really care about free speech, despite his opportunistic bloviating about it now.
How do we know that? Because French was happy to work for a publication, The Dispatch, that was paid by Big Tech to censor disfavored opinions and arguments.
Back in October 2020, just two days after Facebook announced it would be censoring the New York Post’s bombshell Hunter Biden laptop story, Facebook censored two advertisements from the pro-life group Susan B. Anthony List, claiming their video ads contained “partly false information” about then-Democratic Presidential Nominee Joe Biden and VP Nominee Kamala Harris’ views on late-term abortions. […]
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Trump is now worse at abusing the free speech rights of pro-Palestine protesters than the Democrats were at abusing the free speech rights of J6 protesters.
Israel First billionaire and Netanyahu ally Miriam Adelson contributed $100 million to the 2024 Trump campaign, therefore buying Netanyahu another very well trained and obedient dog to follow his commands.
Adelson’s organization, the Maccabee Task Force, gives Trump a list of pro-Palestine migrants to deport and Trump, being her and Netanyahu’s obedient puppy, happily complies with no regard to the constitutional rights of those who the Israel Lobby targets.
The bone that Trump will likely be rewarded with is his dream golf course and resort in Gaza after all Palestinians are evicted and Israel steals their remaining land.