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"Listen Carefully It's Actually Much Darker":
How The Left is Framing Free Speech as a Front for Fascism
“Listen Carefully it’s Actually Much Darker”: How the Left is Framing Free Speech as a Front for Fascism
The defense of free speech by Vice President J.D. Vance in Munich, Germany, has led to open panic on the left in fighting to maintain European censorship and speech criminalization. The response of…
jonathanturley.org
The defense of free speech by Vice President J.D. Vance in Munich, Germany, has led to open panic on the left in fighting to maintain European censorship and speech criminalization. The response of the American press and pundits was crushingly familiar. From CBS News to members of Congress, Vance (and anyone who supports his speech) was accused of using Nazi tactics. It is the demonization of dissent.
In one of the most bizarre examples, CBS anchor Margaret Brennan confronted Secretary of State Marco Rubio over Vance’s support for free speech given the fact that he was “standing in a country where free speech was weaponized to conduct a genocide.”
The suggestion that free speech cleared the way for the Holocaust left many scratching their heads, but it is an old saw used by the anti-free speech community, particularly in Germany.
When they came to power, the Nazis moved immediately to crack down on free speech and criminalize dissent. They knew that free speech was not only the “indispensable right” for a free people, but the greatest threat to authoritarian power.
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This ridiculous and ahistorical spin also ignores the fact that other countries like the United States had both fascist movements and free speech, but did not succumb to such extremism. Instead, free speech allowed critics to denounce brownshirts as hateful, dangerous individuals. To blame free speech for the rise of the Nazis is like blaming the crimes of Bernie Maddoff on the use of money.
Nevertheless, before the last election, the left was unrelenting in accusing those with opposing views as being Nazis or fascists. During the election, it seemed like a one-answer Rorschach test where Democrats saw a Nazi in every political inkblot.
While the narrative failed in spectacular fashion, the script has not changed. Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA) expressed sympathy for the “absolute shock, absolute shock of our European allies” to be confronted in this fashion.
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As CBS was completing the sentences of speech regulators, many in Europe were celebrating the Vance speech as breathing new life into the embattled free speech community. What is most striking is how the press and the pundits could not help themselves. They are eagerly proving Vance’s point. This is an existential fight for the “indispensable right.”
Commentary:
Another excellent article by Mr. Turley.
Neo-Marxist Globalist Democrat have always been for totalitarian government power so it comes naturally to support government censorship., and gun legislation. I always try to point out that the NAZIs were Marxist-Socialists too, The German National Socialist Worker’s Party. Through decrees and laws, the Nazis abolished these Civil Rights and destroyed German Democracy. Starting in 1934, it was illegal to criticize the Nazi government. Even telling a joke about Hitler was considered treachery. People in Nazi Germany could not say or write whatever they wanted. This was followed by total gun confiscation in 1938.
It appears that the Neo-Marxist Democrat equating the Bill of Rights and particularly the First Amendment with Naziism is perhaps the most disgusting and despicable thing they and their Quisling talking head lapdogs have ever done. Their promotion of hate, fear and divisiveness has reached new heights. It would be giving them the benefit of the doubt to write it off to ignorance and stupidity. This is much more sinister and pure evil.
It appears that the Neo-Marxists are basically at best, Soviet era Communists, at worst, 1930’s era Fascists. None of their rhetoric is at all a surprise in 2025, in light of the past 16 years (‘the Obama years’).
We are a free country, and the Marxist/Democrat Left's behavior only more strongly makes the case that no, our Constitution does not need to be ‘updated’ to appease Leftists. We all have a right to exist and be FREE We appear to be making that happen; let us continue into the future, indefinitely, because we will have to. The November 5th. election was just the beginning Let’s make it to the midterms, because Marxists will not relent. We do not get to rest. We Persevere.
