American activists demand new “fair” policies, like banning “hate speech,” “reasonable gun rules,” and “adding balance to the Supreme Court.” Those ideas sound nice, but those very things have already been tried in Venezuela. They failed.
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Andrés Guilarte fled Venezuela, and now warns Americans: don’t do what we did. For example, Venezuela passed a hate speech law to deal with “fascism” and “hate.” In reality, a Reuters investigation found that the law has been used to jail critics of the government. The video above gives more examples of bad ideas from Venezuela that American progressives now want to try.