We elected President Trump to drain the swamp. We weren’t sure he’d be able to do that, but we hoped he would try. We didn’t expect an all out assault on the First Amendment.
Blink and you’ll have missed it. In amongst the furor over immigration, news coverage of Hurricane fallout, and North Korea’s latest tub thumping, President Trump signed that anti-free speech resolution I warned about just a few days ago.
The Associated Press reports:
President Donald Trump has signed a resolution condemning white supremacists, neo-Nazis and other hate groups following a white-nationalist rally in Virginia that descended into deadly violence.
The resolution also urged Trump and his administration to speak out against hate groups that espouse racism, anti-Semitism and white supremacy.
That’s not entirely accurate. In fact it’s a pretty thoughtless and likely intentional misinterpretation of the breadth of this resolution and its real world implications. Read more here.