When Your Foe Isn’t the Left but the Truth — Conservatives’ ‘Free Speech’ Mask Exposed

Welcome to the greatest show on earth! The conservative circus of granting soapboxes to fascists and conspiracy theorists. Behold their theatrical pretense to erect scaffolding for jailing the opposition when the public says, “No, thanks, we don’t like that agenda.”

In the “antifa roundtable” hosted by the White House, all the witnesses were self-described conservative influencers or partisan social-media stars, not independent fact-based journalists. This was just a pre-staged photo-op with talking heads. These figures speak with the confident cadence of victims, wounded by leftwing mobs a narrative cooked to sound plausible, packaged for cable news. But often what they offer is instigated confrontations, infiltrated protests, selectively edit video, provoked responses, and then present themselves as sheep among wolves. 

This manufactured testimony by performing outrage, filming it, and then monetizing the resulting evidence. That’s not journalism, it’s performance art.

Once you’ve built a massive propaganda engine a studio of grievance, broadcast day and night what’s left but to accuse the other side of being terrorists or insurrectionists? Witness, for example, how the same roundtable adopted false claims that “large numbers” of people have been killed by antifa in Portland. The actual number? Who knows? But by wildly exaggerating threats, by framing dissent as domestic terror the conversation shifts from policy disagreement to a binary battle: you are either with us or a threat.

Now, when progressives refuse to accept that framing, when we continue to speak, to march, to protest they can cry national emergency. They can call Papi Trump to use law enforcement or the Justice Department must step in. And when they do, they will say, “We didn’t jail them for their politics. We jailed them for incitement, violence, insurrection.” 

Progressives we must stand up and not let them rig the theater and call it justice.