Hillary Clinton, in a recent interview on PBS, said the press needs a “consistent narrative” about the danger that former President Donald Trump poses to the country. A day after the second assassination attempt against Trump, she said the same thing, telling an MSNBC audience the media ought to develop a “consistent narrative” to show the danger he poses to the world. What she’s really saying is she hates this thing called free speech.
What she’s really calling for are crackdowns against citizens who want to speak about things she opposes. And chillingly, her narrative is coming at a time when a lot of Americans — of both major political parties — agree. “Poll: Majority of Americans believe First Amendment goes TOO FAR in the rights it guarantees,” wrote the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression in August.
The poll, by FIRE, found 61 percent of Democrats agree or slightly agree the First Amendment “goes too far” in the rights it protects, and half of Democrats like the direction America’s headed with its protections on free speech — meaning: Yay, Hillary. That’s Democrats. That’s to be expected from today’s Democrats.
They have been infiltrated and corrupted by Marxists, after all. But the news from Republicans on these same matters isn’t much to cheer, either. From FIRE: “54% of Republicans at least slightly agree that the First Amendment goes too far in the rights it guarantees.
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Fifty-three percent of Americans [of all po.