In the days following this horrific incident, many on both the left and right have responded by calling for American society to make an even firmer commitment to “free speech” and open debate. Today it is clear that the far-left does not simply withdraw from debate but seeks to dominate and silence it. True free speech demands accountability, not appeasement, for those who seek to dismantle it through force and fear. Rather than vague calls for more free speech, what must be done is immediate action to politically stamp out the far-left from the public square. The attack made clear that there is no debate left to have with the far left — only to confront and politically defeat them.