Sen. Ben Sasse Benjamin (Ben) Eric SasseBen Sasse is mistaken with idea for the election of senators in America Big Ten football to return in October Microsoft warns Russia, China and Iran targeting US election MORE (R-Neb.) on New Year’s Day called for a revival of “shared facts” in politics and the media.

Sasse released a video saying that the country's system of government “will not work” without a shared understanding of the value of the First Amendment.

“The only way the republic can work is if we come together and we defend each other’s rights to say things that we differ about,” Sasse said in the video. “We defend each other’s rights to publish journalism and pieces and things that we then want to argue about.”

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Sasse has in the past defended the First Amendment and criticized censoring news, and appeared to take a swipe at President Trump Donald John TrumpHR McMaster says president's policy to withdraw troops from Afghanistan is 'unwise' Cast of 'Parks and Rec' reunite for virtual town hall to address Wisconsin voters Biden says Trump should step down over coronavirus response MORE in the video, saying that it’s “not helpful to call the press 'the enemy of the American people.' ”

Trump, who frequently attacks media coverage as “fake news,” last year tweeted that the media is “not my enemy, it is the enemy of the American People.”

In the video, Sasse warned of a “new kind of tribalism” that he says will result if Americans surround themselves with “echo chambers” of like-minded people.

“We need to come together as a people and reteach our kids what the First Amendment is about,” he said.