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This election cycle should remind us again that there is no particular party "pro speech". There were numerous Bitcoiners who became obsessed with Trump and actually started believing their own BS that the man would be a savior. In the first 3 months, Trump has definitely done some good, rolled back the harsh restrictions on Bitcoin that the Dems favored, laid out an economic blueprint, which is leaps and bounds more than what the Dems were doing, and generally acted on what they campaigned on. What's extremely chilling though is their allegiance to Isreal and labeling any anti - Israel criticism as a "antisemitism", using the state apparatus to cut funding when speech doesn't align with Israel interests. This is dangerous. I know everyone will suddenly become 1A lawyers, defending those actions citing laws that it doesn't violate, but this is something bigger- it's ushering a narrative, a fear that funding will be rolled back if you hold an opinion that departs from theirs. It's bringing back the cycle of self censorship. There are Bitcoiners who've been in the space since 2014 and get a lot of Podcasts and have a say, who were all in on Trump but have been extremely quiet about where all this is headed. I hope they find the balls to call BS, otherwise like many other after and before then they would be the same hypocrites who don't really have a strong constitution.