The Economist (behind a paywall):

“Ted Cruz, a conservative senator from Texas, set a particularly striking example of consistency recently on free speech. … He couched his defence of speech not in high principle but in instrumental terms: ‘It might feel good right now to threaten Jimmy Kimmel, yeah,” he said on September 19th on his podcast, ‘Verdict with Ted Cruz’, ‘but when it is used to silence every conservative in America, we will regret it.’

“… But Republicans might reasonably draw a different conclusion from Mr Cruz’s warning, as they might from many actions Mr Trump is taking: that they need to do everything possible to prevent Democrats from regaining power, and turning this president’s methods against his party.

“Mr Trump is using his office to punish adversaries in ways tha

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