"Election denier." "Science denier." "Climate-change denier." "Conspiracy theorist." "Hate speech." "Fake news." "Disinformation." "Misinformation." "Malinformation."

A bizarre new lexicon has been conjured up by America's elites, the sole purpose of which is to discredit and ridicule – and if at all possible, censor entirely – speech that doesn't support their increasingly dark and deranged agenda.

In the greatest of ironies, the nation once boasting the most robust culture of freedom of speech and the press, undergirded by the strongest constitutional protections for those rights, is now ground zero for a total war on free expression.

How could this happen in the United States of America?