For Trump’s Enablers, There is No ‘Cancel Culture’
The media and entertainment industry continues to reward fascists
Fascism will be welcomed and applauded by media institutions as long as it’s profitable, helps with ratings, and grants them access to power. As I predicted last year, Trump and his merry gang of traitorous accomplices are all going to fail up. So far, none of them are in jail or even indicted, despite demonstrable evidence they conspired in a coup to overturn a free and fair election. This town always protects its own. It’s an incestuous ecosystem, a revolving door between politics, media, and big money, where they’re partisan in front of the cameras and in the halls of Congress. However, behind the scenes, they’re wining and dining together and horizontal between sheets after the occasional “key bump of cocaine.”
There’s no “cancel culture” for conservatives even if they voluntarily enabled the most corrupt and disastrous presidency of our lifetime. In fact, we have a permanent affirmative action policy for them, with the bar being lowered every year. If you’re a Republican, you just need a pulse to succeed. The latest example is CBS News hiring the former Trump White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney as a network contributor. He told reporters to “get over it” when they inquired about Trump’s attempt at a quid pro quo…
