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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Ben Makuch

US free-speech rights shredded despite Trump vow to be first-amendment champion

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A protester wearing an American flag holds up his hands at a protest in Los Angeles. Photograph: Mario Tama/Getty Images

A cornerstone of the Maga movement during the Biden administration was to accuse a mixture of the so-called “woke left” and the justice department of forcing America into the grips of a free speech crisis.

Common complaints were that nobody “can say anything any more” without being canceled or arrested for extremism. In the same breath, Maga broadly described the January 6 insurrection, which killed a police officer, as peaceful, accusing the Democrats of a communist conspiracy.

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