Anyone who doesn’t think that the 1st Amendment is under assault, planned, concerted assault, is totally removed from the realities of life.
The vast majority of people have no problem with 1st Amendment issues. There are several causes. True, many are removed from the realities of life, or just apathetic. However, there are other causes.
Many Americans just don’t want people with whom they disagree to have such liberties. They align with the likes of USSC Chief Justice OW Holmes, a progressive who denied the right to protest the draft and US involvement in WW I. Of course, they won’t come out and say that they want to repeal 1A. Instead, they insist upon an Orwellian interpretation of 1A, that it means precisely the opposite of what its words clearly state. They repeat this over and over, and many Americans actually believe it.
In fact, they distort political language with so much ambiguity that one can simultaneously agree and disagree with just about any statement depending upon how the words are interpreted.
Back in the ‘60s I read Orwell for the first time. I thought it was about the USSR.