I heavily doubt your characterization of the average reasons people voted Trump. Only one candidate threatened journalists with "opening libel laws," where was

I heavily doubt your characterization of the average reasons people voted Trump. Only one candidate threatened journalists with "opening libel laws," where was the hand-wringing about "Free Speech" then? Where was the worry about neocon foreign policy when candidates endorsed torture, carpet bombing the middle east, killing the families of terrorists, and reimbursing ourselves with Iraq's oil after the invasion? People mostly choose their candidate and make justifications after the fact. I do believe that the rhetoric of the left probably drove conservative voters away, but that has nothing to do with what "Free Speech" actually refers to and a lot more to do with cultural values, hating the liberal elite for being liberal more than being elite, and a vague sense of "feeling attacked."