Trampling the First Amendment has become a bipartisan exercise. Apparently, the underlying philosophy of many on opposite sides of the political spectrum today is that they’re all for free speech — unless they disagree with it.

“Again and again, political actors preach the importance of free speech, only to reach for the censor’s muzzle when it helps their side,” Greg Lukianoff of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression wrote in a recent New York Times op-ed. “If, like me, you defend free speech as a principle rather than invoke it opportunistically, you get distressingly accustomed to seeing the same people take opposite positions on an issue, sometimes within the space of just a few months.”

This is an accurate, if dismal, assessment of our current political climate.

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