Dan Bungino.

Welcome to the Bungino brief. I'm Dan Bungino.

All right, I saw this article by the great Dennis Prager, one of the real thinkers of our time.

And he talks about this totalitarian streak on the left.

And the title sums up his article beautifully.

And it's worth your time. It'll be in the show notes.

The newsletter, check it out.

Why the left has to suppress free speech by Dennis Prager.

So he talks about first something I've warned about often that if you were just a minor

student of history, if you've read a Charlie Brown and cyclopedia as a kid,

you would know that pushing the beach ball under water and trying to silence your political

opponents like leftist totalitarians do has never ended in anything, anything other than death

and destruction. Ever. It is a disaster for humankind.

Prager addresses it in the opening paragraph. This is short piece. It's not one of those 11,000

word manifests. It's probably not more than 700 words, but it's worth your time. Prager says,

hey, let us begin with this fact. The left always suppresses speech, always.

Since Lenin and the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia in 1917, there's been no example of the left

in control and not crushing dissent. None. This is what they do. The Bolsheviks on the left.

He says there's one important difference between liberals and the left.

The left. Liberalism and liberals believe in free speech. He's talking about real liberals,

not the fake ones we have now. He says the present leftist threat to freedom in America,

the greatest threat to freedom in American history. Listen to this. It's made possible because

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