Remember when Republicans opposed political correctness, because it inhibited free speech?

"Political correctness is just absolutely killing us as a country," Donald Trump said on the campaign trail in 2015, during his first run for the White House. "You can't say anything. Anything you say today, they'll find a reason why it's not good."

But in his second term, President Trump and his minions are establishing their own form of political correctness. They have found reasons why some speech isn't good, and they are absolutely trying to kill it. In short, the GOP has gone full-on PC.

Witness Trump's executive orders requiring federal agencies to remove terms like "diversity," "gender," and "inclusion" from their documents. Or his decision to bar Associated Press reporters from the Oval Office and Air Force One, because their employer refuses to use the new name that Trump assigned to the Gulf of Mexico.

"We're going to keep them out until such time as they agree that it's the Gulf of America," Trump declared. Press secretary Karoline Leavitt went even further, claiming that Trump was simply holding the AP "accountable" for its "lies" about geography. "It is a fact that the body of water off the coast of........

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