I think one can legitimately criticize the rise of social media driven moralistic feeding frenzies - the excesses of so-called “cancel culture” - without automatically aligning oneself with Marjorie Taylor-Greene. No doubt many -probably the great majority - of the #MeToo cancelled men deserved everything they had coming. It was a way to get some kind of accountability for men who abused their positions of power to harass and sexually take advantage of others in a world where such people rarely faced any kind of justice. Yet this was always dangerously double-edged, since it was in effect a kind of vigilantism by Twitter. There were echoes of Red Brigade denunciations. And it just became too easy to destroy someone’s career and livelihood by leveling an accusation without any due process at all. What began as women empowering themselves through a movement of social solidarity soon morphed into Maenad-style dismemberments for acts not of actual abuse, but mere insensitivity. The political divide has left a no-man’s land in between that no one dares venture into for fear of being shelled from both sides. That is extremely unhealthy. Perhaps it is politic not to use the phrase “cancelled culture” if one wishes to avoid getting shelled from the left, but it would be better if people would respond to the substance of the points being made rather than the mere use of a charged phrase.