“As Second Amendment advocates rightly predicted, those who didn’t trust people with guns, also don’t trust them with speech.”
Conservatives had long predicted that the attacks on the Second Amendment would eventually turn into attacks on the First Amendment. Liberals used to ridicule that until they turned leftward and joined the attack.
The premise of the attacks on the First Amendment are familiar.
Speech is dangerous. Not everyone ought to be able to exercise it without proper supervision. Surely the Framers hadn’t anticipated the internet and would have agreed that disinformation needs to be restrained because it leads to conspiracy theories and insurrections. And there’s no better way to defang conspiracy theories than by ruthlessly suppressing them. That has never led to an insurrection or deep paranoia about the government in the history of mankind.