The 1st amendment to the Constitution protects freedom of speech and, thereby, expression, which, like it or not, means a person can burn the American flag. Trump has said he will criminalize flag-burning because he personally objects to it. He also personally objects to a free press that exposes his lies, reports his negative attacks on women and minorities, and ideas contrary to his own. This should should be deeply alarming to all Americans. It is hard not to draw comparisons to the rise of totalitarian regimes in Europe in the past century. The assaults on freedom were insidious; the first attacks invariably targeted freedom of expression. It's all too easy to say "that kind of thing can't happen here." But it can, and it has.  In the 1950's a senator from Wisconsin created a culture of fear that infected the country until saner minds intervened and, thankfully, prevailed.
But bear in mind that that man was a mere senator; Donald Trump will be President. 



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