If you start to defend freedom of speech now that Trump made some controversial decisions, your honesty is in question.

Someone only advocating for their own political crowd does not advocate for civil liberties.

There is a lot of work to do to get gain back trust. What doesn't help if you advocate for freedom of speech while your text includes the word Trump. It will never be believable.

And it wasn't some nebulous free speech culture, it was partisanship that failed the concept of freedom of speech severely. That isn't on Trump, it is on pushes for deplatforming and co, which haven't been forgotten. It is as simple as people advertising it aren't in favor of freedom of speech. Nothing more to it.

> no professor should be allowed to teach "gender ideology"

Good example on that topic. It lead to some professors being removed and again the partisan position was chosen. Predictable and wrong.

> This is philosophically, intellectually, and morally incoherent

Return to sender.

The criticism of free speech culture only condense to be angry at those that didn't fall in line for the political cause du jours. No need to summon anything more complex.