Personally, I don’t believe it is any different now than it was before. The issue is that it’s not liberals and progressives being ostracized anymore. 20 years

Personally, I don’t believe it is any different now than it was before. The issue is that it’s not liberals and progressives being ostracized anymore. 20 years ago, we had Don’t Ask Don’t Tell in the army, which was cancel culture written into institutional policy. 40 years ago, people were “cancelled” merely by being born dark skinned, and by law would never take prestigious jobs, or even eat in the front of a restaurant, or walk around after dark in certain towns. Now conservatives are feeling the heat of American culture, which has always been direct prescriptive when it comes to right and wrong, in or out. It’s not that anything has changed, but you are hearing new voices calling out in complaint.