Did you know that the Nazis were free speech warriors, just like JD Vance and Elon Musk?
I didn’t, but CBS’ Margaret Brennan set me and Marco Rubio straight on this as she criticized JD Vance’s speech in Munich.
Imagine having to defend free speech to an American journalist? What has happened to American media?@margbrennan @nytimes @jimtankersley @maggieNYT @AGSNYT @SecRubio @marcorubio @BillAckman
— Andrea E (@AAC0519) February 16, 2025
I always associated Nazis with banning political parties, burning books, killing people for being of the wrong ethnicity, and persecution of any dissent. Little did I know that they were the free speech guys.
It’s not even the case that the Nazis rose to power because speech was too free. The party was banned in Weimar Germany for a time, and when they rose to power, they, in turn, banned any other political party, just…
