It was Coons who gaffed
You are so right! I wish a blog could post the text of how Coons flunked the “rights” question she asked him.
Coons doesn’t know the freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment because, as a Marxist lefty, he’s not particularly interested in preserving them for most Americans when the left is in power, as it is currently. Freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom to petition for redress of grievances, freedom to peaceably assemble: they all enable forces in opposition to the regime to mobilize and express their views, which troubles him.