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Kimmel and Comey: If it looks like an attempt to chill speech by Trump, it probably is

Greg Lukianoff · 29 Apr 2026

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  1. Our reading

    The Trump administration jawbones speech even more than the Biden administration did, and far more publicly.

    Their wordsJawboning is something we complained about a lot during the Biden era, and have had even more reason to complain about it under Trump. The current administration just seems to do even more than Biden did — or at least it does so much more publicly than Biden ever would have even considered.

  2. Our reading

    "The other side is bad too" is no answer to the Trump administration's use of power against speech.

    Their wordsThis was true in Trump’s first term. It is true now. Saying so does not require anyone to pretend the left has been wonderful on free speech. I have written entire books arguing the opposite. But “the other side is bad too” is not a constitutional argument. It is a coping mechanism.

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