Then they must agree with Diamond and Silk and with Black Conservative Patriot. Otherwise by their own definition they’re racist.
"one-in-three Democrats think it's racism any time a white politician criticizes a Democrat politician of color.”Political Correctness is when Democrats are entitled, not only to their own opinions, but to their own facts.Republican politicians should be suing the journalism cartel for libel, and collecting big time. The reason they don’t sue is that in 1964 SCOTUS - that is, the Warren Court - ruled that politicians can’t sue for libel (unless they meet a daunting standard of proof of “actual malice”). That decision was unanimous - but then, but for Scalia the Morrison v. Olson decision would’ve been unanimous too - and nobody thinks Morrison has presidential value. It’s just that the Warren Court didn’t have a Justice Scalia in it, so the liberals got overenthusiastic in New York Times v. Sullivan.
In Sullivan, SCOTUS asserted that it was enforcing freedom of the press under the First Amendment - but the First Amendment didn’t create freedom of the press. The First Amendment, and the entire Bill of Rights, was proposed and adopted to guarantee that the Constitution did not change the rights of Americans. That is more or less explicit in the Ninth Amendment.
“The freedom . . . of the press” preexisted the Constitution, and that freedom did not prevent the enforcement of laws against pornography or laws allowing suits for libel. That is, the right to defend one’s reputation in court via libel suit is a right of the people enforceable under the Ninth Amendment.
Every case is unique, and the Sullivan case is not typical. First, because plaintiff Sullivan was neither a Republican nor a liberal - he was a Southern Democrat. This made him an easy target for a liberal court; liberals that they were they were not, on face value, ruling against Republicans. In the light of history, we see clearly that they were ruling against anyone who wasn’t a liberal Democrat. It would have been extremely controversial to have asserted it in 1964, but we know the reality - major journalism is, and has been for over a century and a half, a cartel. It homogenizes journalism ideologically, and the Democrat Party has no principle in conflict with going along and getting along with journalism. Thus, Democrats do not get libeled by anyone with serious propaganda power, and Sullivan is no skin off their nose. Republicans who oppose liberalism, OTOH, get libeled mercilessly.
Republicans need to launch a major suit for libel, right into the teeth of the Sullivan decision. At least we know of two Justices - Thomas and Kavanaugh - who would understand the argument . . .