“The Constitution is not a suicide pact.” And yet First Amendment absolutists would make it so, disdaining Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes’ recognition that there are limitations to the freedom of speech: “The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic.” Social … Read more
Peter Wehner writes at The Atlantic, The GOP Is a Grave Threat to American Democracy: The hope of many conservative critics of Donald Trump was that soon after his defeat, and especially in the aftermath of the January 6 insurrection, the Republican Party would snap back into its former shape. The Trump presidency would end up … Read more
Donald Trump and his allies have repeatedly, and falsely, accused Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and Gov. Brian Kemp, both Republicans, of presiding over a fraudulent election. This is having some interesting consequences in Georgia’s two Senate runoff elections in January. The Daily Beast reports: Conservative operatives and a super PAC with ties to … Read more
The Washington Post summarized the size of Joe Biden’s decisive win: Biden received more votes – 77.3 million (so far) – than any other candidate for public office in American history. With the highest levels of turnout since 1900, he beat Trump by more than 5 million votes nationwide, and that number is expected to … Read more
You’re shocked, I’m sure: The New York Times reports, Study Finds ‘Single Largest Driver’ of Coronavirus Misinformation: Trump: Of the flood of misinformation, conspiracy theories and falsehoods seeding the internet on the coronavirus, one common thread stands out: President Trump. That is the conclusion of researchers at Cornell University who analyzed 38 million articles about … Read more