Welp, liberals are yet again caught in no man’s land where their only friend is hypocrisy. Time to embrace it.
On Tuesday morning, President-elect Donald Trump sent out a tweet on the issue of flag burning.
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Nobody should be allowed to burn the American flag – if they do, there must be consequences – perhaps loss of citizenship or year in jail!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 29, 2016
Liberals and the mainstream media predictably lost their sh*t.
Donald Trump promises to defend the First Amendment.
Oh, and to jail flag burners & take away their citizenship.
That too.— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) November 29, 2016
Trump: Punish flag-burning (which is constitutionally protected) by revoking citizenship (which is unconstitutional) https://t.co/PUDix3dJ5O
— Louis Nelson (@louisjnelson) November 29, 2016
“It seems like Donald Trump is trying to act like he’s the king” — @PrestonCNN on Trump’s flag burning penalties https://t.co/7FED4A6PLA
— New Day (@NewDay) November 29, 2016
While flag burning is protected speech under the First Amendment of the Constitution, the President-Elect is hardly the first person to want to banish the act. Back in 2006, then Senator Hillary Clinton co-sponsored a bill to punish those who burned or desecrated the flag with one year in prison and a $100,ooo fine.
Hillary sponsored legislation punishing flag burning w/1 yr in jail $100k fine. Vid of her arguing for proposal: pic.twitter.com/o6hPU1qPMS
— Lee Fang (@lhfang) April 13, 2016
The only novel idea from Trump is that he wants to strip citizenship for the act, which currently is unconstitutional.
Yet, now that Democrats, liberals, and the mainstream media, for that matter, find themselves in the minority, their outrage over infringing on free speech and civil liberties has amplified. However, where were they when free speech and civil liberties were under attack over the last eight years under President Obama?
It was nonexistent, and the reason for that is because it was the speech and civil liberties of conservatives that was getting trampled on.
All those Milo Yiannopolous and Ben Shapiro talks that have were shut down on college campuses simply because what they’re saying is triggering to liberals. Just in this past election cycle, Pepe the Frog was deemed an anti-Semitic symbol of the alt-right, scribbling the word “Trump” on a campus sidewalk was considered hate speech, and saying you supported Trump for president made you a racist, misogynist, xenophobe, etc.
Where was the Left and the mainstream media when conservatives were targeted for their beliefs? If anything, the media emboldened the Left to target conservatives for their beliefs to prop up their own agenda.
Now, liberals find themselves in the precarious position of tasting their own medicine, and it is a rude awakening for them.
