We’ve been down this speech-trampling road before, most recently with the Bush administration’s Obscenity Prosecution Task Force. Social conservatives have reacted to this latest suggested smut crackdown with a flurry of high fives. “Conservatives must partner with anti-porn feminists,” Ahmari tweeted, then later deleted, last month. Emboldened conservatives are trying to use the Trump moment to steer the GOP firmly away from its commitments to individual liberty. AdvertisementMatt Welch is editor-at-large at Reason magazine and a contributing writer to Opinion.

Source: Los Angeles Times January 03, 2020 10:52 UTC