🇺🇸 This Thanksgiving… I’m thankful for the Constitution, for the rights I’m afforded as an American citizen, and for the wisdom of our founders. Above all, I’m grateful for the First Amendment. The foundation of every other freedom we hold. Around the world, people live under regimes where speaking the wrong words can cost you your freedom… or your life. It doesn’t always take a written law to silence a nation. fear does that on its own. So to those on Twitter this week arguing that certain words, labels, or opinions should be criminal… Please remember the pendulum always swings. The power you cheer for today can and will be used against you tomorrow. And to those on the right calling for criminal penalties for non-threatening speech… How will you feel when a future administration uses that same power against you? Some say they’d “prefer a king.” To the right, who want King Trump, would you feel the same about King Hillary? Once you normalize kings, you don’t get to choose the next one. America has survived 250 years because we protect the rights of the minority even when we hold the majority. If we fail to defend those freedoms for others, we will lose them for ourselves. If America is going to survive the next decade, let alone the next century, we must re-embrace the principles that built this nation. We swear allegiance not to a ruler, and not to a party, but to the Constitution of the United States of America. We must as citizens of these United States live up to the oath that our service men and women give their lives to defend. “I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same. So help me God.” Happy Thanksgiving. 🇺🇸