You would gut the constitution to attack your enemies. However, this will leave us no protection if democrats get hold of the reigns of power or if Trump turns out to the be autocrat that I think he is proving himself to be and not the savior that many Trump supporters think he is. I am not willing to destroy our freedoms to support any man.
The left has already gutted the constitution.
Strengthening libel laws is not gutting the constitution. Indeed, the press has NOTHING to fear as long as they tell the truth.
Furthermore, looking back at the farce that was Watergate, if Richard Nixon had had recourse against the press for all of their terrible lies, Vietnam might never have fallen. Jimmy Carter might never have been elected (Reagan would likely have been elected after Nixon.) I do not think because you are a public figure, anyone should be able to tell deliberate lies, in an effort to overthrow the duly elected govt, and ultimately throw out the constitution. What makes you think, as the media empowers the left, they will respect the first amendment? When has a communist govt permitted free speech? Are we to do nothing, in the name of free speech, to stop the destruction of this country by the lying hard-left media?
It is interesting, how any proposed effort to stop the damage that has been done to our country by the traitorous dishonest left is met with cries of “unconstitutional.” And since you do the same, refusing to address the terrible problems we are facing, and the fact that so many of them are created/compounded by the lying media, I wonder just who you are and what your politics really are.