Separate free‑speech defense from partisan blame

Don’t automatically equate critics of left‑wing 'woke' illiberalism with enablers of right‑wing assaults on liberty; many anti‑woke actors (and civil‑liberties organizations like FIRE) have continued to defend free expression even as some opportunists pivoted toward partisan alliance. The piece urges distinguishing principled free‑speech advocacy from cynical culture‑war leveraging. — Maintaining a cross‑ideological constituency for free speech matters because conflating principled defenders with partisan opportunists weakens institutional resistance to authoritarian speech suppression.