No, I would oppose this no matter who proposed it. I don’t support everything that Cruz has done and he would lose my support entirely if he had proposed this.
If Cruz can embrace Rubio, campaign for TPA, etc. etc. etc. and THIS is what would make you lose your support for him, then I can see that it’s a very important matter to you.
But I’m not entirely sure that if the roles were reversed, this is what would happen.
I suspect that what you would you would do (or if not you, what most of Cruz’s supporters would do) if Cruz had said those exact words is try to understand what was said and determine whether or not it was actually a direct assault on the First Amendment, or whether it was something else.
With Trump, you instantly seem to assume that it’s an assault on the First Amendment. Whereas many of Trump’s supporters seem to be thinking that it’s an attempt to protect the First Amendment against the media-political establishment, because we all know that by this point the politicians and the media are in bed together and that they’re using the media and PC to stifle our freedom of expression already.
As for me, the way I see it is that this may or may not be Constitutional. It may or may not be smart. I’m not going to take a sound byte as a proposed policy.
If it’s shutting down freedom of speech, that’s bad. If it’s providing us a way to fight back against the propaganda of the media political machine and THEIR attack on our rights, that’s good.
Eh. Ignore the first line of my last post. I wanna talk reasonably in this case, and a semi-flame was a bad start for me.