The Trump administration’s systemic attack on free speech is hard to defend. The easier move for the president’s apologists is to attack critics for their hypocrisy.

“The left has amnesia when it comes to the cancel culture they perpetuated. It is a game they created with rules they made up. Now they hate that it’s being applied to them,” the USA Today columnist Nicole Russell writes. The X account End Wokeness, which has nearly 4 million followers, recently posted a photo of a Covington Catholic student in a MAGA hat widely tarred as racist over a viral video of him confronting a Native American man on a 2019 field trip in Washington, D.C., arguing, “You tried to ruin this kid’s life for a smirk. Do not dare lecture us on cancel culture.”

Relying on charges of hypocrisy to defend attack

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