It’s Always About Free Speech
Turns out there’s no good way to structure this piece. Shonda Rimes might as well have produced it since it reads like Grey’s Anatomy for politics (which I suppose would be Scandal) or a daytime soap and is just as convoluted. I do promise that there are no faked deaths or unexpected twins pretending to be each other. It’s long and a touch confusing because there are a lot of moving parts. The built in complexity is deliberate — not by me. It’s how we fail to notice these trends or dismiss them as “too out there.” They’re not.
Zoom out with me, if you will. On the surface, the infighting at The Daily Wire and the accusations being launched at Louder With Crowder might not seem all that interesting — that is until you acknowledge the groundwork that they’re laying. What we’re watching unfold is the intentional muddying of the waters of what constitutes freedom of speech. I cannot stress the intentionality aspect enough.
In many ways, this reads as Free Speech: Part Two picking up where “The Conservative Movement Doesn’t See the Crumbling of Free Speech (or Their Hand in It): the importance of the feud between Steven Crowder & The Daily Wire” ends, a piece I wrote in January of 2023. If you really want to understand the whole context of what’s currently happening, I would suggest starting there.
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