I'm usually against cancel culture. Except against those that partake in it. I'll admit I feel a lot of schadenfreude when those people get canceled themselves and they're held to their own standards.

That's like fighting for freedom of speech forbidding those who are against it to speak.

The important question today is what we would have done if Joseph McCarthy had been right. If (in some bizarre parallel universe) he was somehow right about Communists doing...Communist things and we all definitely agreed on this, would we have applauded his tactics?

The cancel culture crowd today seem to think yes. They look to him as an idol and see his only flaw as his unjust cause.

I don’t think I agree. Extrajudiciality should be shunned in all its forms even if it leads to bad people meeting bad ends.

RFK and Nixon thought so and worked on his staff. So in 1968, running against each other, those two probably represented 95% of the electorate.