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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 1st Amendment spirit of open discourse, are now calling for people to lose their jobs and their livelihoods , all because of something stupid they said on the internet.

This is the same issue that drove numerous stand-up comedians , young men, podcasters and Silicon Valley tech bros into the arms of Donald Trump in 2024.

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