Watch how swiftly the alt right retreats on their support for free speech should they ever dominate politics.

About as quickly as progressives retreated from it once they had the power to get people they disagree with fired.

Progressives aren't the ones using free speech as the core argument for their policies.

Free speech was a core component of progressive ideology until fairly recently, which is the point I was making. Of course they aren't so insistent on it now it's become inconvenient.

This is a wonderful response to that line of thinking. Thank you. This appears to be the actual quote:

"There is freedom of speech, but I cannot guarantee freedom after speech."

But I can't find an official source.