“…but free speech isn’t working!”

“How do you stop the Left? Free expression isn’t working. And they put us in prison for our speech!”

NOT coercion and cancel mobs.

Because

(1) it’s wrong

(2) when it “works,” it hasn’t won you anything, because the point hasn’t been made, and their ideas haven’t been humiliated

(3) you end up evolving into a culture that itself doesn’t respect freedom of speech, an intolerant totalitarian one where everyone is afraid to speak

(4) you push the opposition into private echo chambers where they get even more extreme,

(5) and where you can no longer see them, and react appropriately to the threat