If you've spent any time on social media in the last three weeks, you've probably noticed the organized campaigns to get college and even high school students expelled or denied admission based on their political views.
You've also seen gleeful mobs celebrating as Americans lose their jobs for running afoul of someone's momentary political obsessions.
New York Times editor James Bennet, a liberal, was fired for publishing an op-ed by a sitting Republican senator advocating for a military response to nationwide rioting - a position the majority of Americans agreed with.
What America is going through right now is not merely another, more intense round of "Cancel culture." We're now in the midst of a full-force, totalitarian remolding of our society, one that seeks to place the petty resentments of an outraged minority of leftist activists above everything else in American life.
Everything - from the core of our country's history to the values and norms undergirding American culture - must be uprooted to appease the mob.
The only thing that could make the situation worse at this moment would be handing the White House to a doddering and unprincipled establishment politician beholden to the "Cancel culture" mob.
Things are bad enough now, but conditions will become much worse if the "Cancel culture" born on social media is augmented with the force of law and given the full attention of Biden appointees imbued with the sweeping powers of the federal bureaucracy.
You've also seen gleeful mobs celebrating as Americans lose their jobs for running afoul of someone's momentary political obsessions.
New York Times editor James Bennet, a liberal, was fired for publishing an op-ed by a sitting Republican senator advocating for a military response to nationwide rioting - a position the majority of Americans agreed with.
What America is going through right now is not merely another, more intense round of "Cancel culture." We're now in the midst of a full-force, totalitarian remolding of our society, one that seeks to place the petty resentments of an outraged minority of leftist activists above everything else in American life.
Everything - from the core of our country's history to the values and norms undergirding American culture - must be uprooted to appease the mob.
The only thing that could make the situation worse at this moment would be handing the White House to a doddering and unprincipled establishment politician beholden to the "Cancel culture" mob.
Things are bad enough now, but conditions will become much worse if the "Cancel culture" born on social media is augmented with the force of law and given the full attention of Biden appointees imbued with the sweeping powers of the federal bureaucracy.
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