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If you didnt know beforehand, you knew Elizabeth Warren was an authoritarian when she gave the most unsettling possible argument against the death penalty: She doesnt want the death penalty because she wants criminals to die in prison. The maximum, maximum punishment, she argued, is to keep them in prison for all of their days."

Today, Warren released her plan for combating election interference and disinformation. My colleague Brad Polumbo rightly worries about a chilling crackdown on free speech.

Its important to specify that Warren only calls for criminal penalties on people who knowingly spread false information about when and how to vote in U.S. elections. Lying in order to suppress the vote is pretty bad, and fraud isnt protected by the First Amendment. But pay close attention to Warrens bigger argument here, and it gets worrying.

Warren is trying to criminalize "voter suppression." Voter suppression efforts of any kind offend basic American values, she writes. Then she links to a study about voter suppression.

That study condemns lots of methods of voter suppression, including demobilization. One example of voter suppression condemned by the study Warren links to: The night before Election Day, ads appeared urging people to boycott the election because neither of the presidential candidates would serve black voters.

So, if Warren becomes our president and runs for reelection, imagine a GOP-affiliated super PAC runs an ad in black neighborhoods saying Warren says shes been good for African Americans. She hasnt. The Warren administration might decide that this ad wasnt a bona fide effort to win votes for the GOP, but to discourage votes for Warren. The Warren administration might also decide that this ad is false or misleading.

What then? Will she jail the head of the super PAC?

Free speech is not popular these days on the Left. Now that California Sen. Kamala Harris is out of the race, Warren is the most authoritarian Democrat remaining. She wants to crack down on a specific form of political speech that she claims harms the republic. That is something to worry about.

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Yes, you should be afraid of Elizabeth Warren the censor - Washington Examiner