Sometimes the worst guy you know makes a great point.

Tucker Carlson on Wednesday used the opening monologue of his show to stridently push back against the Trump administration’s onslaught against free speech ― even going so far as to call out Attorney General Pam Bondi for using Charlie Kirk’s death as its pretext.

“Charlie was a free speech champion,” Carlson noted. “Absolutely he was. And I pray that that’s his legacy.”

He then equated freedom of speech with freedom of conscience and “the right of other people to make up their own minds about the basic questions of what is right or wrong.”

Forcibly silencing that is akin to telling people they’re “meat puppets,” said Carlson.