Not long after Donald Trump donned the mantle of the presidency for his second term of office, I was reminded of something President Franklin D. Roosevelt said during his State of the Union Address in 1939 with war looming in Europe.

“There comes a time in the affairs of men,” he noted, “when they must prepare to defend, not their homes alone, but the tenets of faith and humanity on which their churches, their governments and their very civilization are founded.”

One of the founding tenets of our government, the right to express ourselves freely without fear of retaliation, was until recently fully protected by the First Amendment. But that fundamental right has now been placed in dire jeopardy.

President Trump has made it clear that the only political opposition he will countenance is

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