Douglass Mackey and the death of the First AmendmentDouglass Mackey was sentenced to seven months in prison on Wednesday for the crime of insulting Hillary Clinton.Sending political opponents who mock the ruling class to the gulag is the kind of behavior one usually associates with China, North Korea, or some despotic Middle Eastern regime. Not any more. Now it’s the standard operating procedure of the United States government. While the West has prided itself on open discourse and liberal democracy, it has become increasingly common to see individuals in European countries go to prison for “hate speech” violations such as...