Democracy and Free Speech Are Indestructible

I think it's an ingenious picture into how it's impossible for even the most totalitarian state to completely crack down on all types of dissent. Free speech would typically be the very first freedom that an authoritarian regime or one that aims to be an authoritarian regime will crack down on. In democracies, the problem is slightly different. The law has probably never afforded a stronger protection of speech than is the case today under the current interpretation of the First Amendment. But arguably the culture of free speech sustaining sort of the civil libertarian ethos that sustains this understanding of the First amendment may not last much longer due to polarization in the US.