WHEN A ‘DIFFICULT CONVERSATION’ THREATENS FREE SPEECH. Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) is perhaps the leading Trump inquisitor in the House of Representatives. He led one impeachment, played a key role in another, and helped produce the anti-Trump reality series that was the Jan. 6 committee. So when Raskin proposes to give a speech titled Democracy, Autocracy, and the Threat to Reason in the 21st Century, you can probably guess what it is going to be about.

That was the speech Raskin was scheduled to deliver Thursday at the University of Maryland. One might ask: What could go wrong with bashing former President Donald Trump on a college campus? Such a speech would be very well received, wouldn’t it?