David French

one of his political prosecutions on the basis that handing out leaflets opposing the draft was like falsely shouting fire in a crowded theater, creating a clear and present danger to the body politic.

And then it took years after that for decades after that for all of this Supreme Court free speech precedent to build up.

And so his point was Trump is actually defying the law in a way that Woodrow Wilson never was.

Now, I'm still going to say I still think Woodrow Wilson was worse.

I think when you look at the depth and breadth of what's happening, it's worse than the Red Scare.

It's worse than the Red Scare.

Yes.

And you also have the dynamic of, you know, when I was reading to circle back to the memo about domestic terrorism, one of the things the memo talks about was acts of intimidation designed to sort of suppress political participation.

I was like, oh, you mean MAGA?

Everyone knows what happens if you run crossways with MAGA now is you're going to get flooded with threats.

You're going to get flooded with acts of intimidation.

I mean, you know, we've been watching awful things happen in the state of Indiana when this Indiana senators are not willing to do this snap redistricting.

There's been swatting.

There's been threats, avalanche of threats.

It's horrific.

And so, you know, I'm reading the memo and I'm thinking, physician, heal thyself.

I mean, this is, you know, this is one of the most aggressively intimidating political movements I've ever seen in my entire life, certainly in the United States in my adult lifetime.

Yeah.

So, you know, just to set the stage here, I wrote this article after the Republican won in Tennessee, 7th District of Tennessee, which is my district that I used to live in until May of this year.

I've spent many years in this district.