Republicans Aren't Abandoning Free Speech Principles — They Never Had Any

Republicans Aren't Abandoning Free Speech Principles — They Never Had Any

Today, New York Times reporter Jeremy Peters published a piece titled "How the G.O.P. Went From Championing Campus Free Speech to Fighting It," looking at what he frames as a shift in Republican attitudes toward free expression at universities. But like so many mainstream media analyses of conservative positions, Peters' article fails to acknowledge the most obvious explanation: Republicans were never actually champions of campus free speech in …