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When A 'Difficult Conversation' Threatens Free Speech

By Byron York
Wednesday, April 03 2024

Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland is perhaps the leading Trump inquisitor in the House of Representatives. He led one impeachment, played a key role in another and helped produce the anti-Trump reality series that was the Jan. 6 committee. So when Raskin proposes to give a speech titled "Democracy, Autocracy, and the Threat to Reason in the 21st Century," you can probably guess what it is going to be about. That was the speech Raskin was scheduled to deliver recently at the University of Maryland. One might ask: What could go wrong bashing Trump on a college campus? Such a speech…

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