Political Republicans just began to purify

S hardly more than a week after the killing of right -wing activist Charlie Kerk on the campus in Utah, speech attacks in the name of a lawyer for freedom of expression of himself accumulate.

Law enforcement officials have a custody of the 22 -year -old suspected of Tyler Robinson from Utah Prosecutors claim He was in a relationship with a transgender woman and opposed Kirk’s “hatred”. Utah Ruler Spencer Cox He said last week Officials believe that Robinson behaved alone and that they did not expect more arrests.

But for many Kirk’s friends and defenders, any past or current critic – or any person on the left in general – is involved in the act. The leaders all the way to President Donald Trump, without evidence, suggested that there Complete groups funded the political violence movement Against personalities like Turning Point Usa. These charges were manifested in The government -led pressure campaign For social media to Users ban on their speechThe demands of the broadcasters DePlatform comedians Or facing organizational supervision, and a coordinated effort to purify public and private sector workers for the sake Less comments of the effect About Kerk’s life and death, even when they also condemn political violence.

“There are societal limits for freedom of expression,” MP Clay Higgins (R-La) Posted on X Sunday. “We people mention our citizens that some words will not be tolerated, and that working freely within the construction of our society requires some decent behavior, as determined by our traditional values.” A few days ago, was A promise is will “Use Congress salad and every effect with large technology platforms to clarify the immediate ban of the life of each post or commentator who reduced the assassination of Charlie Kerk.”

Earlier this week, Disney and ABC pulled indefinitely Jimmy Kimmel Live! Being the air after the Chairman of the Federal Communications Committee (FCC), Brendan Car Walsh-you will get Miss late at night around the Kirk killer ideology. according to Mike Pines, former Trump vice presidentThe first amendment “does not protect the artists who say fatal or uncompromising things”, and that “employers from the private sector have all the right to reject the employees” who violate their standards.

The employers have the right to expel their employees due to violations of behavior – but the government that threatens them is something else. Trump suggested that the tactic might apply to a Kimmel width, Say this Licing broadcasting networks are likely to be stripped of mostly the negative news about it.

Even before this last incident, the Trump administration has already taken unusual steps to pressure private companies – such as media companies that have not agreed upon – including a $ 16 million settlement with Paramount before Approval of a great merger. Under Car, Federal Communications Committee Open openings In many major broadcasters on their diversity, fairness and inclusion efforts (Dei), which some legal experts say can trample on the rights of the first amendment of those companies. This week, Trump filed a lawsuit against $ 15 billion against The New York Times, He accused him of “a hypothetical tongue” of the Democrats, which is a Times Spokesman He said CNN“It lacks any legitimate legal claims and instead is an attempt to strangle and discourage independent reports.” judge Reject Friday that it is “definitely inappropriate and unacceptable.”

There are fateful signs that this campaign will only expand. Earlier in the week, Public Prosecutor Pam Bondi He said in a podcast interview The Ministry of Justice “will follow the” people “target anyone with a hate speech,” although Kirk himself He said“Hate speech does not exist legally in America”, and even “evil speech” is protected by the first amendment. (Bondi Clearly later“The hate speech that crosses the line to the threats of violence is not protected through the first amendment.”)

Bodcast Kirk On Monday, Vice Vice President JD Vance cleared fears of what he called “madness in the far left”, which is afraid that the administration will want to target the constitutional protected speech. “No, no, no,” insist, “We will go to pursue the network of NGOs (the non -governmental organization) that is characterized, facilitates violence and participates in violence.”

Although public figures on both sides of the corridor have become the goals of political violence in recent years – including a The legislator in the democratic state of MinnesotaHusband The former democratic spokesman in the House of RepresentativesAnd Republican House of Representatives -Vans said the issue “is not a problem in the aspects. If both sides have a problem, then a side suffers from a much larger and malicious problem, and this is the truth that we must tell us.” Trump denied describing political violence as an issue on one side of the ideological spectrum, but he said: “The radical left causes tremendous violence, and they seem to do so more.” I mentioned CBS. Study that He used to be on the Ministry of Justice website I found that “the number of extreme right-wing attacks” exceeds “all other types of terrorism and the extremism of domestic violence”-but the reporters noticed this month that it was lowered.

Trump said this week he Plans to set Antifa Non-organized movement to combat fascism-a terrorist organization. In addition to the risk of targeting a mysterious group of individuals on the basis of common general beliefs, Legal experts note that strict penalties are historically designated for foreign entities, not local, if Trump tries to impose serious penalties on his enemies for “membership”.

Republicans put their actions as a revenge on the liberals who participated in “canceling culture”-or public non-governmental disobedience campaigns-with no clarity or demolition of the line between government cash and control. But the Trump administration drew a fateful picture of the future – and no sign of seizure appears.