We really should have two major parties committed to upholding the Constitution. But at the moment we seem to have none. Because not only have the Republicans been captured by the corrupt fascism of Trump but, instead of standing against the grotesque assault on our democracy Trump has been perpetrating non-stop since January 20, Democrats keep trying to join in.

The latest inexcusable abdications of their duty to uphold the Constitution involve conspiring with Trump to tear up what’s left of the First Amendment with the Take It Down Act. Trump and his supporters may pay lip service to how much they hate jawboning, but this bill is a celebration of it, using government pressure on intermediaries as a means of inflicting as much censorship on online speech as their shriveled autocratic hearts desire. They may wrap their craven agenda in the idea that this law would help the most vulnerable, but only the most gormless would be foolish enough to believe that its power would be so limited when the text itself makes clear how rife it is for abuse. Yet there are Democrats—like Senator Amy Klobuchar, who has never met a First Amendment-violating bill she didn’t like—who are for some reason lining up with Melania “I don’t care” Trump to make sure its abusers might soon have that power.

If we are to get through this constitutional crisis it will be only because of the citizen discourse that the Internet enables. While traditional mass media fails us, the Internet allows us to share ideas and information without it. Laws like the Take It Down Act attack our ability to speak online by forcing the platforms we need to do it to turn against our speech in order to protect themselves. As does the dumber than dumb proposal by outgoing-Senator Dick Durbin, who wants his final gift to America to be to destroy the one law that makes discourse on the Internet possible: Section 230.