Republicans embrace speech limits

President Donald Trump and MAGA spent years lampooning censorship, discrimination against conservatives, and progressive "cancel culture." Now in power—and riding an outpouring of grief and fury over Charlie Kirk's tragic killing—they're enforcing speech codes to punish ideological opponents. Backed by the Trump administration, digital vigilantes are demanding arrests, firings, and deportations for anti-Kirk posts and remarks. Any person who celebrates or mocks Kirk's death—or even criticizes his right-wing views—is being cast as complicit in political violence. The Charlie Kirk Data Foundation—an anonymous website initially branded as "Expose Charlie's Murderers"—claims to have received more than 60,000 submissions. Hundreds of people, if not more, have been fired for social media activity related to last week's shooting, including federal workers and military members named and shamed by Trump Cabinet secretaries.