Bondi (and Trump) vs. the First Amendment

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   Neither progressives nor conservatives can be relied on to protect free speech.

   Genuine liberals and libertarians can...but the former may not even exist anymore, for all I can tell, and the latter seem destined to remain a fringe group of nerdy weirdos.

   Progressivism fades off into old-school statist liberalism on its centrist end (as I understand it)...and turns pretty rapidly into various utterly insane hard-left views--cultural Marxism, regular Marxism, Woketarian totalitarianism...I don't even know what else...on its left end. But it has proven itself to be inveterately hostile to free speech.

   Progressives are, of course, the worst.

   Conservatives took up the cause of free speech as the tattered remnants of liberalism began fleeing to the red team ca. 2016...but conservatism has never seemed to feel the love of free speech in its heart. And pretty much as soon as Trump ascended to the throne again he started crapping on it. Flag-burning often constitutes the right's entering wedge against free expression. Some argue that it's a special case, and--even if we must defend it--we shouldn't hold it too much against people who flinch and go authoritarian over it.

Well, maybe.

   Now we get Bondi talking talk straight out of the totalitarian, progressive left's talk-book.

   There is no such thing as "hate speech" as a legal kind in the USA.

   Then Trump issues some typically garbled, dumbass comments in an apparent attempt to defend Bondi's bullshit.

   As is so often the case, it's amateur hour at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.