“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.
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