NY Times Final­ly Frets Over Squash­ing of Polit­i­cal Dis­sent, But Only by Trump?

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The New York Times has been on a front-page ben­der about Trump cur­tail­ing speech, when they nev­er could muster out­rage about squelch­ing Team Biden and their 57 cen­sor­ship ini­tia­tives. 
On Fri­day’s Page One came a 2,400-word arti­cle by edi­tor-at-large Matthew Pur­dy and Alan Feuer:

How Trump Has Cracked Down On Dis­sent Since the Killing of Char­lie Kirk
The White House has labeled crit­ics ter­ror­ists, attrib­uted vio­lence to a left-wing con­spir­a­cy and inves­ti­gat­ed unions, non­prof­its and oth­er groups in a bat­tle over free speech.

Yes, after years of crack­downs on free expres­sion and speech, both online and in the street, includ­ing dou­ble stan­dards on protests and mask­ing dur­ing COVID, with dis­sent from the con­ven­tion­al hys­te­ria on vac­ci­na­tion, mask­ing, and the lab leak the­o­ry labeled dis­inf …