Your statement in italics is new to me and quite insightful, I think. Whoever is the most powerful gets to enforce his own principles. I do think, however, that

Your statement in italics is new to me and quite insightful, I think. Whoever is the most powerful gets to enforce his own principles. I do think, however, that the Establishment was more supportive of free speech when it was conservative than it is now, now that it is leftist. That is, the conservatives may have been hypocrites at times, but they really did believe in freedom of speech. The woke left is opposed to freedom of speech as a matter of principle.