Re: The US has a lot of overly authoritarian tendencies, but limiting speech is [..] not one of them
That's why we are fortunate freedom of speech is enshrined in the Constitution, so is resistant to any attempts to modify it via executive order. His followers would have a cow if a president was able to override the first amendment without changing the Constitution, because that would mean a future president could override the second.
All Trump can do is call speech he doesn't like "fake news", but his followers' credulity will only extend so far as the evidence piles up against him and the mainstream media reports are proven true. He risks undoing decades of republican effort to cultivate the idea of "liberal media bias" meaning that only Fox News and similar sources can be trusted by republicans. When they learn Fox has been lying to them all along, many will not be happy.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
