Growing concern over restrictions to free speech is playing a deciding factor in the 2024 presidential election, Washington Examiner commentary writer Tiana Lowe Doescher said.
“We saw the total and complete takeover from 2020, COVID censorship, it continued all the way through, and then Oct. 7 happened,” Doescher told Fox Business’s Making Money With Charles Payne.
“That censoriousness, everywhere is a campus now. Everywhere where campuses were being regulated and silenced 10 years ago, that’s everywhere now because those people grew up and those people are running banks and they’re running companies,” she said.
Doescher’s comments arrive following a new survey that reported 63% of voters say free speech is a very important deciding factor for the 2025 presidential election, falling just behind inflation and rising costs.
Allegations of misinformation and disinformation run rampant across the American mainstream, and many citizens feel afraid they could be penalized for saying or posting the wrong thing to social media.
“First, government needs to do no harm, and that means shut down all these DHS programs to surveil parents who are concerned about what their kids are learning as domestic terrorists,” Doescher said. “Stop the disinformation commission.”
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Citizens’ fear of consequence from the federal government for practicing their First Amendment right is nothing new, according to Doescher.
“This happened even before Biden took office because you do have, people don’t like to admit it, but a deep state of career bureaucrats that want to weaponize all these civil liberties eroding measures from the post-9/11 era, weaponize them against the American citizens,” she said.