As America’s left abandons its working-class roots and embraces identity politics, outlawing “hate speech” will become not merely one among many items on its policy wish-list, but the lynchpin upon which its political success and moral promise depends.
Many still underestimate how possible it is for “hate speech” to be banned in America, and how enormous is the movement already pushing to accomplish it. We all have already see the growing list of cavalier assaults on speech: from Kamala Harris’ Senate resolution proposing to outlaw the phrase “Wuhan Virus”; to New York City’s attempt to fine anyone using the phrase “illegal alien” $250,000; to Big Tech’s one-way speech banning ratchet; to the ever-expanding closedmindedness of our campuses. These are not merely isolated instances of outlandish far-left ploys — they are the direct and necessary outgrowths of identity politics.