Could I have imagined when I graduated from college that this column would be published in a mainstream newspaper?

I graduated college in 1980.

The answer is, sort of, "yes."  Leftists were suppressing free speech back then. They dominated college campuses and retaliated against people who spoke contrary to their views. They engaged in puerile protests.

I guess the thing that surprises me is that we have reached such a point of overload that the truth can no longer be suppressed.

//But the lie is obvious now, isn't it?

Because it is not conservatives who coerced today's young people or made them afraid of ideas that challenge them. Conservatives did not shame people into silence, or send thugs out on college campuses to beat down those who wanted to speak.

The left did all that.

It's there in front of you, the thuggish mobs of the left killing free speech at American universities. The thugs call themselves antifas, for anti-fascists.

They beat people up and break things and set fires and intimidate. These are not anti-fascists. These are fascists. This is what fascists do.//