the idea that he doesn t belong in a public debate or it s okay to shut him up, this is such this is so deeply authoritarian and undemocratic and get all these people who make this kind of statement think that they are fighting for democracy. laura: i like ththese wimpy neocons that look like they couldn t bench press 100 pounds are always flexing on going to war and we ve got to fight for freedom abroad. but they are fine with circumscribing freedom here in the united states. taking down their own autocratic stance of limiting opposition of freedom of speech. isn t that what putin and xi do all the time? well, this is why in some senses it is wrong to think of these people even as warmed over reaganites, because in the reagan era, there really was a free world and there was on the other side a totalitarian world, but now that there s a blurring of the differences, all the old slogans are meaningless because