Adam Serwer

that the sort of self-styled free speech champions of the quote unquote cancel culture era are praising this administration's stewardship of free speech when it is blatantly trying to censor

criminalize all of its critics.

I mean, Trump called for prosecution of Hakeem Jeffries for speech yesterday.

And I think the general philosophy of right wing free speech warriors, and I say free speech in quotes because they don't actually believe in it, is simply to pretend that the Trump administration doesn't exist.

Well, it depends on how you catch the slurs.

Even in the context of this, I mean, you know, they're trying to revoke visas or block people from traveling to United States who were doing any kind of disinformation research, which itself is speech.

You know what I mean?

Like, you know, if you're a private organization doing disinformation research, that is speech.

They're entitled to do that.

And their view is that any criticism of them is censorship.

And when you define it that way, then you can fight censorship by censoring people.

It's an Israeli ceasefire.

I'm going to get in trouble for that.

So, you know, I think the issue with the Iran war is,

is that it was a stupid idea to begin with.

And the administration is run by these people who have this like, you know, turn of the century Victorian conception of masculinity.

They just assume that this would be like an easy war against, you know, quote unquote, primitive people.

And it didn't occur to them that they might be outmaneuvered strategically.

Because they were too busy, you know, wanting to show everybody that they were big, tough guys.

I mean, you look at like Stephen Miller, who's like, we never should have withdrawn from our colonies after World War Two.