That shouldn't come to resemble looking for excuses to avoid decent principles of political pluralism.

The paradox of tolerance is applicable and all political actors should know about it.

Our traditions, laws, and judicial history on free speech are solid guidelines for navigating most of this from a legal perspective. We permit hate speech. With few exceptions we tolerate all kinds of speech even for hateful groups and groups that would end free speech. This tolerance is good.

Judicial history? The justice system is now dead.

Damaged, under threat, sure. What we should want is to ensure and reaffirm pluralistic, free speech friendly norms, not to engage in abuses ourselves.

Germany has specific laws against Nazism. They aren't some totalitarian hellscape because of it.

They are bad on free speech though.

And then those hate groups get power and eliminate that free speech. Yanno like now how the admin is bullying universities and corpos into compliance? We must adjust our tolerance to ensure these people never see daylight again.

Exactly!🤦🏻‍♀️FFS!

"Let's eliminate free speech because we're worried about someone else eliminating free speech" is a pretty cursed line of reasoning. My answer to that is no; anyone opposed to free speech is part of the problem.