Is 'Cancel Culture' The Future Of The GOP?
"Cancel culture" is everywhere.
No, not cancel culture the phenomenon (that is, if you believe it is a phenomenon, an opinion that is itself contentious). Rather, "cancel culture" is everywhere — as in, the phrase that inundates you lately when you listen to a political speech or turn on cable news.
The phrase is so pervasive that it's arguably background noise in American politics now — just part of the wallpaper, a pair of words you might easily (or, depending on your feelings, happily) breeze past every day without paying it any attention.
Republicans have for a long time used the phrase "cancel culture" to criticize the left. But lately they have seized on it aggressively, at times turning it on each other.
Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan has been defending his fellow Republican, Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, as she was stripped of her House
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