Republicans hostile to First Amendment?

What do you know? Forty-three per cent of Republicans believe the president ought to have the power to close down news outlets for bad behavior.

Freedom of the press may be guaranteed in the Constitution. But a plurality of Republicans want to give President Trump the authority to close down certain news outlets, according to a new public opinion survey conducted by Ipsos and provided exclusively to The Daily Beast.

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All told, 43 percent of self-identified Republicans said that they believed “the president should have the authority to close news outlets engaged in bad behavior.”

This saddens, but I don’t think it should surprise. After all, Trump promised during his campaign to break the press to his saddle — and Republicans couldn’t wait to soil themselves and vote for him. As I said here, a fake reality has to be maintained. That’s hard to do when the press is free, which is why it’s in the First Amendment. Trump is exactly who the Founders meant to protect the country from — and shame on us if we don’t protect the tools they had the foresight to give us.

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