Nor do I
However a politician does not have the option to just ignore the MSM commentator that misconstrues his meaning.
They should not apologize or gently amplify their real meaning.
It is perhaps time to forcefully counter attack against those that intentionally misrepresent what was said.
The best defense is often attack
but I will still say don’t foolishly give them an opening by using your words carelessly. Politicians don’t have that option either.
I understand where you are coming from, but I feel that it is a cultural shift that must take place, not a political one.
As a people, when speaking the truth, we need to give less of a crap about what other people think of it...if it is the truth.
I am reading a book that tells a terrible story, called “Big Intel” by J. Michael Waller that talks about the history of the FBI and CIA to this point, and how they have been captured by our enemies.
One of the recurrent themes is the use of speech restrictions under the banner of inclusion, but I applies to all speech.
I don’t know how we get around it. But further knuckling under in the way they want us to seems counterproductive.
The Left enjoys changing the meanings and symbols of discourse in such a way that their opponents are constantly off guard. They define things, then change them at their discretion to allow them to do things like this (what they are trying to do to Byron Donalds, and all of us)
We shouldn’t give them that power, because they have shown how they use it.