The use of the “useful idiot” trope tells you all you need to know about their opinions on any kind of entity dedicated to social issues.

And yet here they are, trying to pretend that a foreign government’s ability to run psyops is protected speech.

Why do you think they are pretending? Many of us agree with them.

I think “trying to pretend” is just one of those thought terminating cliches to pretend that you have a winning argument.