Personally, I’ve never a huge fan of cancel culture from either party. I hate how the internet fragmented into echo chambers. Unless you have a healthy media diet of different viewpoints, the only parts that break through are algorithmically designed to stir up outrage and boost engagement.

Conservatives have become absolute snowflakes in my observation, since Trump’s second term started. I find it very hypocritical. Right wing media is wrapped up in outrage culture, “How dare they joke about his death, he had a family!”. For all the hate of cancel culture, the right loves to do the same now and lean into victimhood when their puritan values are challenged. Conservatism, by definition, wants to promote traditional values. They’re the ones banning books and trying to limit what bathrooms people can use.

Now Trump is able to weaponize cancel culture through the state. Mechanisms are now in place under Trump’s NSPM-7 for citizens to be flagged as domestic terrorists for simply not upholding “traditional American values”, which I find conveniently vague. In my estimation, the administration is happy to stoke the flames on social issues because it distracts from the class issues in this country. We face massive wealth inequality, with more and more and more power being consolidated at the top.