David French And The Never-Trump Faction Don’t Care About Free Speech At All

The Federalist ^ | March 31, 2025 | John Daniel Davidson

[E. Pluribus Unum]

If you think America is just an idea, then you’ll gladly sacrifice the rights of Americans for the ‘rights’ of foreigners.

Lately, it’s become fashionable for Never-Trumpers like David French to denounce the president’s new policy of revoking the visas of foreign nationals who agitate for terrorist groups like Hamas. It’s un-American, we’re told, to hold guests to a certain standard or to remove hostile foreigners from our country.

This past week, French posted on X that “we can absolutely and totally dispense with the idea that Trump’s Republican Party defends free speech. We’re witnessing one of the most comprehensive attacks on political speech since the Red Scare.”

Setting aside that the Red Scare was mostly justified (by the 1950s the Soviet Union had, in fact, infiltrated Hollywood, academia, and even the U.S. government), there’s a couple of things to say about this trend. First and foremost is that French in particular doesn’t really care about free speech, despite his opportunistic bloviating about it now.

How do we know that? Because French was happy to work for a publication, The Dispatch, that was paid by Big Tech to censor disfavored opinions and arguments.

Back in October 2020, just two days after Facebook announced it would be censoring the New York Post’s bombshell Hunter Biden laptop story, Facebook censored two advertisements from the pro-life group Susan B. Anthony List, claiming their video ads contained “partly false information” about then-Democratic Presidential Nominee Joe Biden and VP Nominee Kamala Harris’ views on late-term abortions.

The ads in question were labeled “partly false” by an “independent fact-checker” hired by Facebook “to look carefully into claims from elected officials, reports from the media, and disinformation on social media to help you understand what’s true and what’s not.” Who was this independent fact-checker? None...

[wizardoz]

We aren't infringing on their right to free speech by deporting them. If we were charging them criminally and sentencing them to prison, THAT would be unconstitutional, but simply sending them home, what's wrong with that?

I mean, it's not like they were praying outside an abortion clinic.

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

This a**hole David French is still around?

Is he getting a check from Soros to spout this never-Trump crap?

[rhinohunter]

ping

[sauropod]

Bkmk

[princeofdarkness]

David French- CIA asset at work undermining the administration.

[A strike]

AWESOME dam good article by John Daniel Davidson in The Federalist should be at least read, most likely rejected, by our black robed savant rulers; half of whom now seem to be foreigners (WTH is up with that?).

-fJRoberts-

[Sam Gamgee]

As a Canadian I have to wonder what the heck French is talking about. Coming from a nation where the right to freedom of opinion is rushing to extinction, the USA is a bright shining star of freedom of expression. There are a few areas that need improvement, such as campaign financing laws, but these are few.