If Robert Kagan hoped to generate some conversation with a lengthy Washington Post opinion piece last week, he succeeded. Kagan, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and an editor at large for the Post, presented a provocative warning to the public, arguing that the United States faces the possibility of a “dictatorship” if Donald Trump is returned to the White House.
Sen. J.D. Vance — a former Trump critic turned sycophant — evidently wasn’t persuaded by Kagan’s case. On the contrary, the Ohio Republican this week sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland and Secretary of State Antony Blinken seeking some kind of investigation into the published piece. From the senator’s letter:
“I wish to address to your attention a recent opinion piece published in the pages of a widely-circulated American newspaper. Based on my review of public charging documents that the Department of Justice has filed in courts of law, I suspect that one or both of you might characterize this article as an invitation to ‘insurrection,’ a manifestation of criminal ‘conspiracy,’ or an attempt to bring about civil war.”
In other words, Vance, a Yale-educated lawyer, believes the Post op-ed might have crossed a legal line.
Isn’t the duty of a newspaper to “comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable?” This senator is way too comfortable - with a dictatorship.
he wants the government to investigate the speech of some private entity? because feelings?
in what reality does this guy live??
One in which opposition is emnity, and when you you can’t counter the truth with obfuscation you use any and every means at your disposal to suppress speech.
Vance is one of the people helping pave the way toward dictatorship.
Exactly. Right out of the authoritarian playbook.
In Hungary, Orban stopped government advertising and big business followed suit.
https://www.eurozine.com/viktor-orbans-war-on-the-media/
And doing so while being in the party that covers fascist and racist speech with “freedumb of speech”.
Protecting a guy that literally repeatedly previously and as recent as LAST WEEK said he wants to be a dictator.
I haven’t searched for it, but I’m sure someone who wants to can confirm for me that J. D. Vance has complained about someone or other being “cancelled” at least once.