Thread by @SethAbramson

(🆚) NEW: Trumpist Insurrectionists Have Created a Systematized Mechanism for "Cancelling" People and Groups—and It's the Most Comprehensive Cancel Culture America Has Ever Seen

A peek inside the insurrection's HQ reveals America's largest cancel culture. sethabramson.substack.com/p/trumpist-ins…

1/ I never imagined I'd find what I found when I finally went inside Patriot[.]Win, which was spawned by the now defunct TheDonald[.]Win. It truly is the most organized effort to create a "cancel culture" we've ever seen—by people who say "cancel culture" is *destroying America*.

2/ Hypocrisy is, of course, not new for the Trumpists. But this is something else. The 137 "badged" companies, media outlets, and sites identified by the insurrectionists' digital HQ are so central to American life that if you actually cancel them it makes living here impossible.

3/ I list all 137 in the article—and I'd honestly like any PROOF subscriber who reads it to tell me whether it's even *possible* to live in America in 2021 if you cancel all the entities that the Trumpists' "cancel subculture" demands be cancelled (even as they decry cancelling).

4/ In trying to answer the very question it poses, the PROOF article above—among many other things—goes through the exercise of imagining the life of a Trumpist living inside the "cancel subculture" Trumpism now demands of its adherents. Here's *one section* of that hypothetical:

5/ And those are just *some* of the "red-badged" (fully cancelled) companies in *one* category of human activity. There are other fully-cancelled companies in that category that I left out; there are other industries impacted; and there's a whole "orange-badge" category I detail.

6/ I hope that—every time you hear Trumpists whine about a supposed left-wing "cancel culture"—you point them to this article. For each time the internet rallied against (say) a woman illegally calling police on a Black birdwatcher, Trumpists were out there canceling...COCA-COLA.

7/ As the "left"—really everyone—cancelled Harvey Weinstein for raping women, Trumpists were busy cancelling Goodyear, Marriott, Sephora, Under Armour, Wayfair, YouTube and *82 other major companies*.

I really think most folks don't understand what's happening inside Trumpworld.

8/ I suspect that those who read the article atop this thread will start to feel, as I do, that not only is the right-wing outcry about "cancel culture" inauthentic, it's *devious*—a deliberate, systematic attempt to deflect attention from a burgeoning Trumpist authoritarianism.