Our First Amendment test is here. We can’t afford to flunk it.

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What really makes America great? It’s the meaning of 45 words found in the Bill of Rights: The First Amendment. Donald Trump’s presidency is very likely to threaten those First Amendment rights. If they are damaged or removed, we’ll be like a lot of unenviable places.

“Freedom of speech is a rare thing, after all. It’s one of the big differences between the United States and a place like Cuba,” wrote John Daniel Davidson last March in the Federalist. “Cuba has no freedom of the press — or rule of law. Libel is whatever the regime says it is.” These are rights that allow us to march in the streets, to worship freely, to publish tough stories about the government.


Our First Amendment test is here. We can’t afford to flunk it.