This is not anything new or US specific for heavens' sakes. Socrates was sentenced to death in ancient Greece for "corrupting the minds of youth", "failing to acknowledge the gods of the city", and "introducing new deities".

It never stops.

Even though I’m the second most powerful man in the country,

lol the fuck you are JD

“I wanted to reclaim free expression as a leftwing value, because I was seeing more and more of my friends grow sceptical of the value of free expression. Which I think is an understandable reaction to how dire everything was and continues to be since 2020.”

Nice

This is maybe one of the worst aspects of the Obama presidency, how it gave rise to this notion that people have a right to be free from offense. Most people honestly think their opinions and identity are sacrosanct, and that it's their right to never have to cope with hearing anything they don't like.

And I really, really wish I knew how to make people care about anything that really matters so much as they care about this symbolic, stupid shit.