ions. He did good work in North Korea. All of that's real. I didn't make any of that up.

So to my critics, when you asked me if I feel bad that I supported the president I say why are you so bad at comparing things? Why can't you do costs and benefits? And then I'll do that impression of a Trump critic and that won't go well in that conversation I'm pretty sure.

All right. I asked this question on social media and was immediately mercilessly mocked. Mercilessly, I say, but I can take it. And what I said was that it's too soon to know if the Trump suspension on Twitter will be viewed as one of the biggest mistakes in American history but is certainly a candidate.

Now what happens when you say in public that banning Trump from Twitter might be one of the biggest mistakes in American history? Do all of my wise and honest critics, do they come in and say you know you're right because this could be a landmark point in terms of freedom of speech? Now we'll talk about freedom of speech in private companies versus the government's version of it in a moment. But do they say yeah you know you've got a point. If we were to lose freedom of speech you know that the effect wouldn't immediately be obvious but eventually it would destroy the republic. Wouldn't you agree? Wouldn't you agree that without freedom of speech you're pretty much putting yourself on a path to dictatorship or destruction or something?

So to me it seemed like a pretty big deal that something that signals the end of freedom of speech, our most bedrock necessary right, that somehow that looks like it's ending. And I had a historian come at me and say Scott you should stop talking in public because you're embarrassing yourself because there have been much bigger problems. You've got your Civil War, you've got your everything, every kind of racism and war and everything. And so people mentioned all of those various other problems to mock me for thinking that Trump being kicked off of Twitter is somehow as big as the Civil War.

To which I say would there have been a Civil War if you didn't have freedom of speech? Think about it. Would slaves be free if there was no freedom of speech? Would Abe Lincoln ever have been elected if they had no freedom of speech? I would contend that basically everything good that's ever happened is because we had freedom of speech. And if you get rid of that, which I believe happened literally, I think freedom of speech is actually no hyperbole. I'm not saying this to make a political point, to be provocative and get some clicks. This is my honest belief. The freedom of speech just ended this week. It ended for all practical purposes. You can still say things that nobody cares about, right? But if you say something that really would move the needle on social media you can't. You can't.

So historians who are the experts believe that the loss of freedom of speech, no big deal. And they mocked me for my belief that it might be. There's your experts. Believe the experts. Has anybody ever told you that you should trust the experts? Because they don't know the difference between somebody getting kicked off Twitter and freedom of speech.

Here's something we're learning that is deeply disturbing. That when Pence and his family, I guess I don't know why the family was there but they were, I guess they were protected in a bunker during the Capitol riots and the incursion. And they were hunkered down in a bunker while people within hearing distance were chanting "hang Pence." Can you imagine that? Imagine the Pence family really didn't cause any trouble to anybody, right? If there's anybody who does not deserve to be criticized in my opinion, I know yours differ, but I'm no fan of Mike Pence in terms of his politics especially on the LGBTQ stuff. But you can't take away from the fact he's been a damn good vice president in terms of what vice presidents are supposed to do.

So here's this poor guy who's been nothing but a loyal patriot and public servant who has to feel the end of his vice presidential career and maybe his political career listening to people on his own side chanting about hanging him. Put yourself in that position. It's scary enough that they're even using these words but imagine that you