'Crushing the First Amendment': How Trump’s 'Red Scare playbook' is criminalizing dissent

'Crushing the First Amendment': How Trump’s 'Red Scare playbook' is criminalizing dissent

In her latest for The New York Times, opinion columnist Tressie McMillan Cottom warns that the chilling of speech by President Donald Trump and his administration is leading to self-censorship and criminalizing dissent."Whether you want to call it authoritarianism or not, the president is criminalizing dissent, from regular people and comedians to political rivals. The culture of retribution breeds a natural but regrettable human impulse to self…