ERICK ERICKSON

POLLING from YouGov last week shows 45 percent of Republicans support letting courts shut down “news media outlets for publishing or broadcasting stories that are biased or inaccurate.” Only 18 percent of Democrats favor this. Worse, only 33 percent of Republicans recognize that “fining news media outlets for publishing or broadcasting stories that are biased or inaccurate would violate the First Amendment.” Of course, only 45 percent of Democrats think that. Democrats took this as proof Republicans are becoming totalitarian.

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