September 19, 2025
The Left Laughed at Charlie Kirk’s Assassination. Jimmy Kimmel’s Fall Is Justice.
By Joseph Ford Cotto
For years, conservatives lived under the constant threat of cancellation. A single wrong word, a traditional belief spoken aloud, or even a misinterpreted joke could mean the end of a career. Cancel culture wasn’t just an internet mob; it was a force that reshaped livelihoods, destroyed reputations, and silenced millions of voices across the country.
In 2018, at the height of the #MeToo movement and its broader social media outrage campaigns, this reality hit the right especially hard. A Cato Institute survey found that 77 percent of Republicans admitted they felt compelled to self-censor out of fear of job loss or social backlash. For conservatives, this wasn’t just cultural pressure; it was economic insecurity, where an offhand remark might jeopardize the very income that put food on the table.
When 2020 arrived, the surge of wokeness following nationwide protests and Big Tech’s enforcement of ideological conformity marked the zenith of cancel culture. The Heritage Foundation documented at least a dozen prominent conservatives fired or blacklisted that year for positions like opposing abortion causes or standing against leftist extremism. These were not marginal figures. They were professionals whose livelihoods were stripped away simply because they voiced opinions that clashed with progressive orthodoxy.
This was the atmosphere conservatives endured for years on end: a climate of fear, a stifling of free expression, and a steady erosion of economic opportunity for those unwilling to bend to the left’s demands.
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