Hate and beauty have this much in common: Often, they’re in the eye of the beholder.

That’s what makes criminalizing hate so fraught, particularly regarding hate speech. One person’s mean and damaging remark is another person’s exercise of the natural right to free expression. Republicans were on board with that when they rose to defend the rights of a Colorado bakery shop owner who refused to decorate a cake for a gay wedding.

But when a worker at an Office Depot in Portage, Michigan, wouldn’t print a poster to support a rally in honor of slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk, it was Republican Attorney General Pam Bondi declaring “businesses cannot discriminate” and threatening to prosecute the company.

Bondi followed with the promise of a broader crackdown on speech.

“There’s fre

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