‘Cancel Culture’ Is About Changing the Conversation

David Hopkins: “The cancel-culture preoccupation isn’t necessarily a mistake for Republicans—at least if their main objective is electoral success, not substantive influence. Polls have consistently shown that Biden’s COVID response efforts gain wider popular approval than any other major policy or presidential quality. Meanwhile, as Harry Enten of CNN recently pointed out, the assertion that political correctness has ‘gone too far’ receives broader agreement from the American public than the Republican Party’s positions on many other political issues.”

“Rather than trying to convince voters that legislation containing immediate four-figure cash payments for everyone in their family is actually a bad idea, it’s strategically easier to simply move the partisan battle to more favorable terrain.”