While the country’s attention was drawn to the federal government shutdown, President Donald Trump signed National Security Presidential Memorandum 7 (NSPM-7), which purports to designate the ideology of antifa as a “domestic terrorist organization” and directs federal law enforcement to disrupt its gatherings and those of its supporters.

The gist of NSPM-7 appears to be the president’s view that the United States suffers from an enemy within our borders, an enemy that consists of Americans who hate Christianity, capitalism, and Americanism, and it is somehow the duty of the federal government to disrupt the free speech of these haters because their speech has a tendency to violence.

Here is the backstory.

When President Woodrow Wilson arrested folks for their speech critical of America

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