This is how it always works.
— Eric Schmitt (@Eric_Schmitt) May 27, 2025
The Right wins elections, and the Left pretends to magically rediscover the Constitution, the rule of law and free speech.
Don't fall for it. 🧵 pic.twitter.com/xe4rz7laxo
This is how it always works.
The Right wins elections, and the Left pretends to magically rediscover the Constitution, the rule of law and free speech.
Don't fall for it. 🧵Last week, 60 Minutes' Scott Pelley gave a dramatic commencement speech warning that "our sacred rule of law is under attack. Journalism is under attack. Universities are under attack. Freedom of speech is under attack."
We've heard these lines a million times before.Today's corporate press has an extraordinary hero complex—they imagine themselves as fearless, courageous defenders of democracy and freedom, as brave as the boys on the beaches at D-Day, risking it all to fight tyranny.
They want us to believe they're "speaking truth to power."ÂAll they did for the past four years was cover and shill for the most powerful institutions and actors on the planet.
The media is the propaganda arm of a public-private regime—spanning Big Tech, academia, the administrative state, etc—that works in lockstep to advance leftism.ÂWhen it served the Left's interests to have Biden in power, the press worked overtime to convince everyone he was mentally fit. When that failed—when his decline was so visible that it became a liability for the Left—they turned in unison to push him out.
60 Minutes itself—which Scott Pelley is the face of—is currently being sued for deceptively editing a Kamala Harris interview in the heat of the 2024 campaign cycle.
Does that sound like fearless, independent journalism, speaking truth to power without fear or favor?Where were the Scott Pelleys of the world when Biden’s White House was literally coordinating with Big Tech to silence dissent?
When the DOJ targeted concerned parents at school board meetings?
When the FBI spied on traditional Catholics and deemed them "violent extremists"?ÂAt best, they were silent. Most of them were active participants.
As AG of Missouri, I sued to expose Biden's vast censorship enterprise. We took it all the way to the Supreme Court. The press attacked us—and ran cover for Biden—every step of the way.
And it's not just the press—it's every elite left-wing institution.
Now that President Trump is pushing for long-overdue reforms at Harvard, for example, the university and its powerful allies are suddenly VERY concerned about threats to "academic freedom" and free speech.Harvard has been ranked dead last for college free speech for the last two years in a row.
Dead. Last.
Out of ~250 colleges and universities.
For two years in a row.
The jokes write themselves.The dramatic lectures about "protecting our democracy" were so common during the first Trump Admin that they're now the butt of a joke.
Ironically, "protecting our democracy" was the same line the Left used to justify its unprecedented crackdown on basic freedoms under Biden.ÂThat's because they don't mean a word of what they say. Not really. All of these arguments are a cynical means to an end—an "any weapon at hand" approach to politics.
Beneath the moral preening, that's what all this boils down to—helping their friends and hurting their enemies.• • •
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