Dick Polman: MAGA’s muzzlers decree we’re only entitled to their opinion

Bear with me as I flash back, albeit briefly, to 2009.

Ted Kennedy died that summer, an event that triggered a tsunami of online hatred. I wrote about the Kennedy fallout, lamenting how the internet had afforded idiots the opportunity to exhibit their worst selves. But it never occurred to me to demand that such people should be hunted down and fired from their jobs, or, more broadly, that free speech should be less free and that vile opinions should be censored. Nor would it have remotely occurred to the Obama administration to create and unleash Thought Police.

But today Trump and his minions are goose-stepping all over the First Amendment — Jimmy Kimmel is only the latest casualty — and what amazes me is that anyone with a brain can be shocked that this is happening.

Fascists aren’t