This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. But free speech is always a danger to power, and now that the GOP has control of the White House and both houses of Congress, and has a friendly Supreme Court—as well as a growing number of cultural and corporate institutions—Kirk’s allies are rattled by it. “You can’t call someone who you disagree with, or simply can’t win an argument with, a Nazi, a fascist, a dictator, a greatest threat to democracy in the history of civilization, and then pretend you had nothing to do with it when the more radical wing—and there does not seem to be all that much difference to me these days—takes up arms and tries to kill those they disagree with,” Donald Trump Jr. said last week.
Author: David A. Graham
Published at: 2025-09-16 22:17:00
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