The Jimmy Kimmel Suspension Isn't "Cancel Culture." It's Something Far More Sinister.

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It isn’t especially surprising how farcical the Trump administration’s commitment to free speech absolutism turned out to be. The suspension of Jimmy Kimmel Live! —prodded on by Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Federal Communications Commission after Kimmel made a joke about the MAGA movement’s reaction to the assassination of Charlie Kirk—is the most flagrant addition to the president’s growing blacklist. But Trump possesses a storied history of legislating his miscellaneous culture-war fixations. (Perhaps you recall the State Department revoking visas of students who dared to criticize Israel.) That the Trump administration has made a continual mockery of the Fi