The Confused Conservative

Conservatives do battle with words and facts, but that approach doesn’t work so well when liberals alter the meaning of words with abandon.

A woman stomps on a free speech sign at the University of California–Berkeley in Berkeley, Calif., on Sept. 24, 2017. Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images

Commentary 

Last month, a poll by RealClear Opinion Research on American attitudes toward First Amendment freedoms revealed a remarkable change among liberals. Historically, liberalism has treated individual rights and free speech as absolute values. State power is to be suspected. The minority viewpoint is to be granted respect and so is privacy.