Inside Trump’s Crackdown on Dissent: Obscure Laws, ICE Agents and Fear | President Trump is clamping down broadly on dissent using the tools of the federal government.

“Freedom of speech has limitations,” Thomas D. Homan, who is overseeing Mr. Trump’s deportation operation, said on Wednesday during a meeting of New York lawmakers in Albany. “We consider him a national security threat.”

Nothing says democracy like "Freedom of speech is a national security threat".