I'd say no. Climate and healthcare positions tend to be pretty easily identifiable re: right/left, the exceptions are rare.
Free speech on the other hand, is not a partisan issue. There are loads of republicans and democrats who actually do agree with each other it needs to be defended without bias, and also many on each side who seem to be against it.
You're insisting on this, but where's the argument? What aspect of right-wing thought does support for free speech come from? The concept of political rights comes from liberalism in opposition to the right of the time, and free speech in particular (political speech to get even more specific) has long been one of *the* central focuses of the political left, which has often required defenses against the mainstream right. Even putting history aside, the need for free political speech flows naturally from liberalism, but it does not flow from theocracy, ethnonationalism, market fundamentalism, or any other common right-wing ideology.
More recently, we have seen some right-wing defenders of a more-expansive definition of free speech, but those have only been in response to right-wingers themselves being on the wrong end of attacks there from the fringe left. Liberals have welcomed them to the fight, only to find that they disappear as allies when the speech that needs defending is not from Nazis or MRAs, but from mainstream liberals.
If I were tribalist, I would be arguing a lot more with people I disagreed with over you; whereas I suspect you & I share a lot of beliefs.
I don't have a problem respecting people even if I disagree with them on a lot of stuff politically.
You're not in the WR much, but I remember pointing out a factual error to you. I figured you'd correct it and move on. No such luck--you responded by attacking me and saying that I wouldn't have corrected the error with no basis at all. In another thread, after you similarly attacked my character, you asked me for my view on Damore, and I gave it. I called you into this thread to show that now that the shoe is on the other foot, there is no one from the right showing any consistency on that issue.
As for you, I like you and think you are intelligent, but you can be over-partisan as hell sometimes. And saying that only the left protects free speech with good intentions is one of those times.
I always liked your HW posting (well, not *always*), but I get the sense that you don't think about the issues that come up in the WR as much and are more likely to make knee-jerk-type posts here. I think if you make more of an effort to understand where I'm coming from intellectually, you'd see that I'm not partisan at all.
