For the last few years, Republicans have puffed themselves up as defenders of free speech and opponents of cancel culture.
That is—they reserved the right to cancel your culture while defending their right to say whatever they want.
In 2019, Dr. Lee opined in a tweet that Trump and Dershowitz had a “shared psychosis” of “grandiosity and delusional-level impunity.”
But you know how it goes. When you’re, say, a gay student protesting homophobia, you’re a snowflake. But when you’re one of America’s most influential lawyers complaining about a signal tweet—oh, my god, we need rules of ethics!
In a response last week, Powell’s lawyers issued the ultimate statement of free expression. They argued Powell shouldn’t be held accountable for the accusations she made because “no reasonable person would conclude that the statements were truly statements of fact.”
I can’t say it enough: the current batch of Trump cultists who’ve seized control of the Republican Party are the biggest bunch of frauds I’ve seen in 40 years of covering politics.
