ABC’s indefinite suspension of Jimmy Kimmel is, for anyone who cares about free speech in the United States, greatly disturbing. Kimmel is off the air because he made a joke about the accused murderer of Charlie Kirk and the Trump administration longs to systematically silence dissent. “Hate” speech is not free speech, according to Attorney General Pam Bondi. Vice-President J.D. Vance has celebrated the idea of publicly shaming and firing anyone who speaks ill of Kirk. President Donald Trump himself is repeatedly suing news outlets that defy him, and he’s hoping a ludicrously specious $15 billion lawsuit against the New York Times will force the newspaper to retract their tough reporting on his administration and career.

This all amounts to what one could call the “woke” right; a resu

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