The real tragedy is that the left got there first.
Freedom of speech is beneficial only if a vast majority of the populace shares certain fundamental values:
Free markets produce the best outcomes, especially when people take personal responsibility for their economic situation.
Social comity rests on taking personal responsibility for one’s actions, not making excuses or blaming “the system”.
The last six of the Ten Commandments are the best guides to proper behavior.
Duly enacted laws are to be upheld until they are duly revised or rescinded.
Social and economic freedom come down to mutual trust, mutual respect, and mutual forbearance, which describes the state of liberty. Without those things, there is no liberty.
The Framers of the Constitution could not envision a free society in which the foregoing tenets were routinely and gleefully violated. That is because there cannot be a free society where the foregoing tenets are routinely and gleefully violated.
The only remedy for America’s present condition, as I have said many times, is a national divorce that leads to the creation of a (smaller) nation that is dedicated to liberty. That new nation would need a new Constitution (e.g., this one). And that new Constitution would (inter alia) bar creeping leftism; for example:
Congress may … enact laws prohibiting and punishing the utterance or publication of ideas that would circumscribe the economic or social liberties of citizens of the United States, as they are recognized in this Constitution.
If that seems draconian, you haven’t been paying attention. The left is in the process of effecting such a regime, albeit without constitutional authorization. Having been allowed to do so, you can be sure that the left would do it again if given the cover of “free speech”.