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In the days since Charlie Kirk’s shooting, a level of performative concern about limiting speech critical of the slain conservative has spread far and wide. It’s led to normally critical liberal pundits, like Ezra Klein, celebrating Kirk’s life and work, while others have been fired for merely bringing attention to things Kirk has said via direct quote. This hypervigilant policing of speech critical of Kirk reveals hypocrisy on all sides. However, during this fight over cancel culture in reverse, one conservative leader has gone above and beyond in his unabashed weaponizing of the free speech politics of the moment, in direct contrast to his very recent actions to

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