JD Vance
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And like the First Amendment, obviously, it's a legal document that talks about the role of government and censorship and sort of prohibits government censorship.
But it's also a sort of ethic and an attitude that is endemic, or I hope is, to American society, which is we're going to think what we want.
We're going to say what we want to.
That's an important First Amendment value, even though it has nothing to do with the First Amendment as a legal document itself.
And a lot of people were sick of being told what to think.
If you say that an 11 year old should not get gender transition drugs, that is hate speech, according to a significant subset of the left.
A lot of people say that's hate speech.
I think that this is β and look, I'm trying not to be too partisan because I know a lot of people watch your show.
But this is to me the biggest and most fundamental difference between Kamala and President Trump in the campaign is whether it's Biden calling people garbage or Tim Walz calling people fascist and Kamala calling people Nazis β
or endorsing explicit censorship, we're not trying to censor our fellow Americans, right?
We'll attack Kamala and our policies and our ideas, but we're not trying to say you should be silenced because you disagree with us.
That is anathema to everything that I believe in.
And that is what's happened in the modern Democratic Party, at least at the leadership level, is they've gotten really comfortable with the idea of silencing people who disagree with them, such to the point where
Like it's not even that Tim Walz thinks that hate speech should be censored.
It's that the governor of a state could utter that phrase without recognizing how fundamentally subjective it is.
Or Hillary Clinton saying that we want to censor misinformation.
She has come out and explicitly said that we have to censor disinformation and misinformation.
Like, hey, you're not supposed to have total control over discourse.
We don't want people to have total control.