David DesRosiers: Using the Free Speech Trinity to Preserve the American Experiment
In this episode of Get Real, RealClearPolitics Publisher David DesRosiers explores the vital role free speech plays in sustaining the American experiment. Drawing on professor Robert P. George’s Free Speech Trinity – exercise, organize, and defend – DesRosiers outlines a practical framework for rebuilding civic culture and strengthening the institutions that support a free society. He discusses why protecting open dialogue requires more than defending speech rights in principle; it demands active participation, exercising freedom of speech as Charlie Kirk did, community building, and a commitment to safeguarding the freedoms that make self-government possible.
DAVID DESROSIERS: And here’s my salvo in defense of free speech. A free tongue. Free speech is a prerequisite for reconstruction. Robbie George captured the free speech trinity. Exercise, organize, defend. Exercise, Charlie Kirk’s the American role model. Be like Charlie. Organize, their strength in numbers. Join Turning Point USA and ARC. Defend the free exercise of free speech. Model the toleration that’s lacking. Don’t be chilled out. Stop looking at your shoes. Stand up and speak American to your fellow Americans. If enough of us practice this creed, we can save this American experiment in self-government. Dan, on any topic, what’s your take?
