The NYT's Editorial Board today:
The founders of this country recognized the possibility that voters might someday elect an authoritarian leader and wrote safeguards into the Constitution, including powers granted to two other branches of government designed to be a check on a president who would bend and break laws to serve his own ends. And they enacted a set of rights — most crucially the First Amendment — for citizens to assemble, speak and protest against the words and actions of their leader.
Glad to know that the central importance of free speech has been re-discovered. It wasn't very long ago they were sounding pretty sour about the idea of speech lacking government oversight and regulation.
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Isn't this an admission that all the hand-wringing about a Trump win leading to the end of America was just fear-mongering?
I don't know if I'd go that far; but you're right, they clearly expect to be able to use speech to contest him. A true tyrant wouldn't allow that.
Dissent is once again the highest form of patriotism.
To Deevs’ point:
https://babylonbee.com/news/kamala-calls-for-peaceful-transfer-of-power-to-adolf-hitler
That was quick. There will be whiplash around the filibuster as well.
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