https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_Nazi_Germany
When you say “taken too far”, the outcome certainly was a fascist state with totalitarian control of media; how would staunchly defending freedom and decentralized control lead to that?
Not sure what it has to do with 'control of the media'. The person who took the photograph was likely part of the media.
Yeah! I remember when these thugs took mayor chunks of cities and fired some police stations and politicians refused to move a finger.
Actually this historical precedent is the reason for the stricter rules on expression in the Germany of the present.
So who exactly has been "whipped into a frenzy here?"
Who are Trump supporters fearful of, other than the government that is actively attacking them?
And if you're having a hard time figuring out who the proto-fascists are, look for the ones who don't respect free and fair election results, and look for the ones who try to make it harder for people to vote.
You need to at least be consistent with your complaints.
People who aren't white, people who aren't straight, people who are transgender, people who aren't Christian extremists, people who don't think the government is a giant ball of evil incarnate, etc.
Trump literally tried to overthrow the government in 2020. This isn't debatable: it's a fact. In any sane, functioning democracy, he'd be jailed already. It's scary that such a large fraction of this country fears and hates everyone else so much, and this country so much, that they'd be willing to use violence to overthrow it and install a dictator.