'Cancel Culture' Wasn’t Defeated — It Was Hijacked

Once the loudest critics of “woke mobs,” conservatives are now wielding the same tools of censorship — only with more power behind them.

In the days since Charlie Kirk’s killing, conservatives have embraced a phenomenon they previously called toxic: cancel culture.

The impulse to cancel some voices this past week is understandable: Celebrating murder is cruel. It’s gross. It’s wrong. But the irony is impossible to miss: Conservatives, who long treated cancel culture as an affront to the 1…