“Our ability to freely engage in civic life and to organize in defense of our beliefs is still under coordinated assault from groups on the left that don’t like the idea of anyone criticizing their aims, and from a White House that appears determined to shut up anybody who challenges it,” McConnell said at the American Enterprise Institute, according to a transcript.I don't know what McConnell is talking about, unless it's the strange idea that criticism of one's beliefs is an attack on free speech. As I've said many times, free speech means that you're allowed to say any dumbass thing you want, and I have a right to call it dumbass.
In related news, right-wing Christians are feeling bullied. In this country, you could never elect an atheist president, but Christians feel bullied. Now, if they equate bullying with ridicule, maybe they have a point.
