Trump Derangement Syndrome is real. Liberal media bias is real. And despite what his critics scream on social media, Donald Trump is not Hitler, and he’s not a Nazi.

But let’s also acknowledge something else that’s true: Donald Trump believes in free speech — for himself. Not for you. Not for me. And certainly not for Jimmy Kimmel or anyone else who dares to disagree with him.

He’s filed lawsuits against news organizations whose coverage he doesn’t like. He’s threatened to yank broadcast licenses from networks that air content he finds offensive. And his handpicked FCC commissioner, Brendan Carr, didn’t just dip his toes into authoritarian waters — he did a cannonball.

Carr, speaking about ABC and Jimmy Kimmel’s jokes aimed at Trump, seemed to channel a mob boss. “We can do this the easy way or the hard way,” he said. It was such a parody of gangster politics that even Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) — no stranger to partisan trench warfare — had to call it out. “That’s right out of ‘Goodfellas,’” Cruz said on his podcast. “It might feel good right now to threaten Jimmy Kimmel, but when it is used to silence every conservative in America, we will regret it.”

Credit where it’s due. While Cruz wasn’t the only conservative to stand up for Kimmel’s........

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