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Under the Heading, "Wait, What?!?!?!?!?" [1]

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Date: 2023-08-03

Plenty of great analysis around how asinine it is to defend Trump on free speech grounds amid the latest indictment. Jamie Raskin and others have of course nailed it.

But I think this quick bit should help:

From an article somewhere back in 2020:

"We ought to come up with legislation that if you burn the American flag, you go to jail for one year. One year,” Trump said , claiming that he’s “a big believer in freedom of speech,” but calling flag burning “desecration.”



So if somebody speaks out against war or whatever while burning a flag as part of the expression, that's a crime? But if somebody uses words to coordinate and drive a conspiracy aimed at overturning an election, the entire end-to-end behavior is fully protected speech? That's one mighty contorted pretzel. Except in the flag burning example, Republicans want to punish ACTUAL protected speech; so yet more Orwellian projection afoot.



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