{"id":3929,"date":"2019-03-05T16:54:18","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T16:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/03\/05\/what-do-mario-savio-and-president-trump-have-in-common\/"},"modified":"2019-03-05T16:54:18","modified_gmt":"2019-03-05T16:54:18","slug":"what-do-mario-savio-and-president-trump-have-in-common","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/03\/05\/what-do-mario-savio-and-president-trump-have-in-common\/","title":{"rendered":"What do Mario Savio and President Trump Have in Common?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Both struck a blow for free speech.&#0160; <a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2019\/03\/03\/trump-has-saved-the-free-speech-movement\/\">Here<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\"><span class=\"wpsdcp-drop-cap-default\">&quot;H<\/span>e took a hard punch in the face for all of us.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">With these words, President Donald Trump transformed Hayden Williams, the young conservative campus activist who was viciously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/red-alert-politics\/conservative-attacked-on-uc-berkeley-campus-for-protesting-jussie-smolletts-hate-crime-hoax\" onclick=\"javascript:window.open(&#39;https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/red-alert-politics\/conservative-attacked-on-uc-berkeley-campus-for-protesting-jussie-smolletts-hate-crime-hoax&#39;); return false;\">punched in the face<\/a> at UC Berkeley last month, from a victim to conservative folk hero.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Trump went further. With Williams looking on in starstruck awe, the president <a href=\"https:\/\/observer.com\/2019\/03\/trump-announces-executive-order-targeting-college-campuses-and-free-speech\/?fbclid=IwAR3VYLOhV--ebUBVjk6Y48rPHPAhEsAeT-D0jsLtplf7jL0zcPFGPsf--wg\" onclick=\"javascript:window.open(&#39;https:\/\/observer.com\/2019\/03\/trump-announces-executive-order-targeting-college-campuses-and-free-speech\/?fbclid=IwAR3VYLOhV--ebUBVjk6Y48rPHPAhEsAeT-D0jsLtplf7jL0zcPFGPsf--wg&#39;); return false;\">announced<\/a> at the Conservative Political Action Convention on Saturday that he would sign an executive order that would oblige American universities to comply with the First Amendment\u2019s free-speech protections or risk losing federal funding.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2014\/05\/what-ever-happened-to-mario-savio-from-free-speech-to-no-speech.html\">Whatever Happened to Mario Savio<\/a>?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Both struck a blow for free speech.&#0160; Here: &quot;He took a hard punch in the face for all of us.\u201d With these words, President Donald Trump transformed Hayden Williams, the young conservative campus activist who was viciously punched in the face at UC Berkeley last month, from a victim to conservative folk hero. Trump went &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/03\/05\/what-do-mario-savio-and-president-trump-have-in-common\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What do Mario Savio and President Trump Have in Common?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[231],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-free-speech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}