As the nation mourns the death of one of the most popular and influential conservative activists in the country at the hands of an alleged left-wing assassin and processes the gravity of Google’s admission that the company engaged is mass censorship of the Right during the COVID-19 pandemic at the behest of the Biden administration, Democrats and the press have decided that the most pressing issue facing the republic was the brief suspension of late-night TV host Jimmy Kimmel.

“It was pretty much the most direct infringement by the government on free speech that I’ve seen in my lifetime,” CNN’s Jake Tapper said. Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN), the 2024 Democratic vice presidential nominee, called the Federal Communications Commission’s perceived pressure on Disney “North Korea-style stuff,” and Gov. JB Pritzker (D-IL) claimed that Kimmel’s suspension proved that “democracy is being taken away.”