Lately, it’s become fashionable for Never-Trumpers like David French to denounce the president’s new policy of revoking the visas of foreign nationals who agitate for terrorist groups like Hamas. It’s un-American, we’re told, to hold guests to a certain standard or to remove hostile foreigners from our country.
This past week, French posted on X that “we can absolutely and totally dispense with the idea that Trump’s Republican Party defends free speech. We’re witnessing one of the most comprehensive attacks on political speech since the Red Scare.”
Setting aside that the Red Scare was mostly justified (by the 1950s the Soviet Union had, in fact, infiltrated Hollywood, academia, and even the U.S. government), there’s a couple of things to say about this trend. First and foremost is that French in particular doesn’t really care about free speech, despite his opportunistic bloviating about it now.
How do we know that? Because French was happy to work for a publication, The Dispatch, that was paid by Big Tech to censor disfavored opinions and arguments…
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