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President Trump stands against cancel culture, which seeks to erase our history," White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany declaimed on Monday......
But here's the hypocrisy: Donald Trump has embraced "cancel culture" his entire life. I cannot think of another politician, or public figure, who has spent more time trying to "cancel" critics than the thin-skinned former reality TV star in the Oval Office. Over the years, Trump has called for the boycott of leading U.S. brands such as Macy's, Apple, and Harley Davidson, among others, because they displeased him in one way or another. He forces those around him into nondisclosure agreements and then threatens them with legal action if they dare speak out against him - including his own niece Mary, whose forthcoming tell-all book the president is desperately trying to ... cancel.
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Trump's interest in silencing his opponents - the very thing cancel culture's conservative critics decry - is more pronounced when he's targeting members of his own political party. Take Mitt Romney. The sole Republican senator to vote for impeachment in February faced an intense backlash from both the president and his ideological allies - especially after Trump labeled him an "ass" and a "fool" and called for Romney's impeachment. The president's son demanded the Utah senator be expelled from the GOP. The chairman of the Conservative Political Action Conference said he could not even guarantee Romney's "physical safety" should the senator decide to attend the organization's annual event. In short, at Trump's behest, the Republican Party canceled their own former presidential candidate.....
The dead aren't spared, either. The late Republican Sen. John McCain is such an objectionable figure to the president that White House officials asked "the U.S. Navy to move 'out of sight' the warship USS John S. McCain ahead of President Trump's visit to Japan," according to the Wall Street Journal in May 2019. (The ship was named after the father and grandfather of the late Republican senator - so much for Trump standing against the "erasing of our history"!)
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So ignore the hysterical attacks on "cancel culture" from the right. Not only because they are a distortion of the facts and endless talk of a leftist "cancel culture" mob is a "joke" and a "con," as Osita Nwanevu has documented in the New Republic, but because they are a product of bad faith and brazen hypocrisy.
Right now, in 2020, here in the United States, we have an anti-free speech, authoritarian egomaniac sitting in the White House, backed by a cultish political movement steeped in grievance politics, constantly cracking down on critics, dissenting voices and unpopular opinions. Donald Trump and the Republican Party have never stood against "cancel culture." To the contrary, they embody it.
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I would also add that nothing evidences cancel culture more than Trump’s efforts to wipe out Obama’s legacy and presidency.
But here's the hypocrisy: Donald Trump has embraced "cancel culture" his entire life. I cannot think of another politician, or public figure, who has spent more time trying to "cancel" critics than the thin-skinned former reality TV star in the Oval Office. Over the years, Trump has called for the boycott of leading U.S. brands such as Macy's, Apple, and Harley Davidson, among others, because they displeased him in one way or another. He forces those around him into nondisclosure agreements and then threatens them with legal action if they dare speak out against him - including his own niece Mary, whose forthcoming tell-all book the president is desperately trying to ... cancel.
........
Trump's interest in silencing his opponents - the very thing cancel culture's conservative critics decry - is more pronounced when he's targeting members of his own political party. Take Mitt Romney. The sole Republican senator to vote for impeachment in February faced an intense backlash from both the president and his ideological allies - especially after Trump labeled him an "ass" and a "fool" and called for Romney's impeachment. The president's son demanded the Utah senator be expelled from the GOP. The chairman of the Conservative Political Action Conference said he could not even guarantee Romney's "physical safety" should the senator decide to attend the organization's annual event. In short, at Trump's behest, the Republican Party canceled their own former presidential candidate.....
The dead aren't spared, either. The late Republican Sen. John McCain is such an objectionable figure to the president that White House officials asked "the U.S. Navy to move 'out of sight' the warship USS John S. McCain ahead of President Trump's visit to Japan," according to the Wall Street Journal in May 2019. (The ship was named after the father and grandfather of the late Republican senator - so much for Trump standing against the "erasing of our history"!)
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So ignore the hysterical attacks on "cancel culture" from the right. Not only because they are a distortion of the facts and endless talk of a leftist "cancel culture" mob is a "joke" and a "con," as Osita Nwanevu has documented in the New Republic, but because they are a product of bad faith and brazen hypocrisy.
Right now, in 2020, here in the United States, we have an anti-free speech, authoritarian egomaniac sitting in the White House, backed by a cultish political movement steeped in grievance politics, constantly cracking down on critics, dissenting voices and unpopular opinions. Donald Trump and the Republican Party have never stood against "cancel culture." To the contrary, they embody it.
Donald Trump is the king of cancel culture
"President Trump stands against ... cancel culture, which seeks to erase our history,"...
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I would also add that nothing evidences cancel culture more than Trump’s efforts to wipe out Obama’s legacy and presidency.
