I'm not so sure she is ignorant to the 1st amendment applying to individuals.
What is true is, she doesn't want it to apply to individuals.
So all of her efforts go to making that true.
A little persuasion, a little historic revision, a little of the old lib attitude that rules don't apply to them, and they can do whatever they want, and voila, the 1st amendment is inoperative as the libs love to say.