The American right discovers that it loves cancel culture, too

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Jimmy Kimmel in 2019. ABC indefinitely suspended his late-night talk show on Wednesday over comments on the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

This is not cancel culture, the right insists, as it scours the internet, searching for heretics. Iconoclasts will be identified – shamed, reported, and maybe even investigated – to ensure they are punished for their unacceptable opinions. This hunt is not limited to those who celebrated the assassination of MAGA influencer Charlie Kirk, which is arguably legitimate grounds for termination (indeed, publicly endorsing murder should be considered something of a red line), but also include those who spoke ill of him posthumously, or who quoted him inaccurately , or who said they won’t personally be mourning his death. Those people are being