In the run-up to the last elections, Donald Trump’s supporters expressed frustration at social-media companies’ bias against conservatives and by the Biden administration’s efforts to muscle those companies into removing content it didn’t like. MAGA conservatives promised that with Trump’s win, the nation would enter a new era of “free-speech absolutism.”

Yet the nation is now witnessing an unprecedented attack on the First Amendment. Trump wasn’t interested in promoting a principled free-speech ethic — one with which we strongly agree. Instead, it’s interested in promoting open speech for its side while using the government power to crush dissent.

Some flagrant examples jump to mind. After Politico reported that Young Republicans expressed outrageously racist, misogynistic and anti-Semi

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