Donald Trump has already shown how he can control the media, and how he can own a news cycle. Whether it’s Twitter trolling or being impetuous is something for you to decide, but he really has them jumping. And free speech and limited government has been rediscovered by the Left. Trump is indeed making American great again by helping it remember its core principles.
Even MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell is getting in on the “checks and balances” bandwagon!
Mentioned links:
Nets Torch Trump on Flag Burning Ban, Extinguish Clinton’s Ban Support
Let’s make the Confederate flag a hate crime: It is the American swastika and we should recoil it from it in horror
The Confederate Flag In Every State, In Every Form, Must. Come. Down.
Flashback: Clinton introduced bill to criminalize flag burning
Tufts U. student leaders reject free speech measure, call it ‘unsafe’
Trump Gives Victory Speech, Liberals Rediscover Appeal of Limited Government
In Landmark Vote, Senate Limits Use of the Filibuster

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Donald Trump has already shown how he can control the media, and how he can own a news cycle. Whether it’s Twitter trolling or being impetuous is something for you to decide, but he really had them jumping on November 29th.
He posted this suggestion. “Nobody should be allowed to burn the American flag – if they do, there must be consequences – perhaps loss of citizenship or year in jail.” And in 140 characters or less, he kicked the media freak-out into high gear.
Just to be clear, this was a tweet. This was not a bill or executive order; this was his opinion. That’s all. Too many of Obama’s actual executive orders didn’t get as much coverage. And yes, you can’t just strip people of their citizenship; that would be unconstitutional. And yes, the Supreme Court already declared that flag burning was protected free speech, way back in 1989. So this expression of disgust at flag burning was a tempest in a teapot; a tempest that Trump need  not have created, to be sure, but no big deal overall.
But our media decided that it had to spring into action and remind us of those facts about free speech and the Constitution. Liberals all of a sudden rediscovered both of these concepts. I say “rediscovered” because it seemed they had forgotten about them for the past 8 years. Well, at least they’d had some selective memory loss. Flying or burning the flag of your choice is free speech, no question about it. Just like flying a Gadsen “Don’t Tread On Me” flag by those Tea Partiers. Just like flying a Confederate flag. Right?
There has been a push to get the Confederate flag taken down from official government locations, but no one’s trying to outlaw flying it privately, right? Well, in the wake of the Charleston shootings by Dylan Roof, there was. I have a couple of example links in the show notes, including an article in Time magazine where the President of the Southern Poverty Law Center wrote, “[T]he Confederate flag in every state, in every form, must come down.”
But free speech has been rediscovered by the Left. Trump is indeed making American great again by hel...