If this poll is a fair reflection of the views of self-identified Republicans, this is frightening. It is communicating the message that 45% of the self-identified Republicans polled have no intrinsic respect for the principles of free speech as implemented in the First Amendment.
I am going to lay this out here. The idea of the First Amendment is that the government does not get to disallow or censor speech simply because it does not like what is being said. Closing media outlets is in total conflict with that principle. If you think that the idea of shutting down media outlets that you don’t like is OK, you are an enabler for totalitarianism and fascism.
