How the Left Intends to Preserve Its Press Fiefdom

The leftist press is in league with the Democratic Party and Big Tech—entities requiring the rationing of information to the public to retain their own crumbling fiefdoms.

Despite their perspicacity, America’s founders could not have envisioned every turn to which human nature would subject the United States. In fairness, who could foresee the temerity of the deceitful, conspiracy peddling, leftist media now demanding to be designated as the repository and gatekeeper of truth?

When drafting the First Amendment’s recognition and protection of God-given rights to free speech and a free press, the framers knew a governmental attack on a free press outlet would constitute an attack on everyone’s freedom of speech. Equally, they believed a governmental attack on an individual’s freedom of speech would constitute an attack on a free press.

In sum, America’s founding generation understood these rights—which are no more than an implicit recognition of the God-given right to the freedom of conscience—were mutually reinforcing. Given that mutual reinforcement, the founders couldn’t imagine an instance where someone could support freedom of the press but not freedom of speech, or vice versa. Still less could they imagine anyone not in the government arguing for the curtailment or termination of either or both.

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