Republicans don't actually support free speech at all. We're only a month into Trump's second presidency, and it's 100% clear that Project 2025 is off to the races, something that Trump claimed during his campaign over and over again that he had zero knowledge of.
All of his hires and his early orders clearly show he was lying through his demonic, sociopathic teeth. The closer Project 2025 gets to accomplishing all of their agendas, it's going to be 10× worse than the supposed censorship that the far-left was accused of, which was mostly trying to prevent medical misinformation as well as, bigotry from the right-wing, etc.