We Are in the Cancel Culture Part of the Tragedy Cycle

This article very rightly points out that Kirk has never been a liberal in the sense of really advocating for free speech but rather he’s mobilized the idea of liberalism to wrongly differentiate himself from campus illiberals who have notably given up on liberalism, the categorical imperative and such. Like

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Horowitz

would very much like to punish everyone who disagrees with him but things have gone so far with certain groups, particularly transgender activists, that it is easy to mobilize the idea of liberalism in service of an illiberal cause (notably: I see both Kirk and canceling transgenderists as more similar than different, Kirk can fool a lot of folks like Ezra Klein into thinking he’s better by mobilizing the idea of liberalism)

I dom’t appreciate “cancel culture” though in the title because it is a coded word.