“Democracy cannot healthily endure without free and unfettered debate. But knowing where the line is, matters. I see it this way. There are roughly 300 million people in America. Let’s say 1 percent of them, only one in 100, are composed of those who might fairly be called emotionally unstable—the mentally ill, those who have limited or no ability to govern their actions, those who act out, as they say, physically or violently. That’s 3 million people. What effect might ‘they want to see you dead’ and ‘the Republic is falling right now’ have on their minds?”
Peggy Noonan in The Wall Street Journal
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