The author really just brushes over the David Shor situation, because his absolutely indefensible firing more or less obviates this entire essay. You can write

The author really just brushes over the David Shor situation, because his absolutely indefensible firing more or less obviates this entire essay. You can write it off as just random noise, but it progressed exactly how critics of cancel culture have identified as the way cancel culture exercises power to deleterious social effect. Note that the biggest proponents of cancel culture have seen no need to think about that event, which highlights the core issue with granting some people inherent epistemic privilege over others: it attracts the hucksters and con artists who can claim that power like a moth to flame, and the culture immediately rejects any antibodies against them as racist/sexist/transphobic/whatever.