The pillars of cancel culture are facing their own cancellation

The Leftist media-NGO complex is crumbling in an election year

It’s a critical election year. And it’s not a good time for the media-NGO complex which underpinned much SJW activism and woke ideology for the past decade. Having emerged under Obama and thriving in opposition to Trump, they expected a good time when Biden was placed in the White House.

Except it didn’t turn out that way. There has been a spectacular decline in left-leaning media outlets, with both legacy (Washington Post, LA Times) and new digital media organisations (Now This, Buzzfeed, Vice, Vox) conducting layoffs, downsizing operations or shuttering. And it’s coming at the worst possible time for Biden and the Democratic Party, for whom they serve as a cheer squad. Three of the most notorious Leftist organisations, the DSA, Media Matters and SPLC, have also made layoffs.

To be sure, the conservative New York Post cautioned against being too gleeful about journalism’s decline. There’s a point in there to be sure, where local journalism is concerned. But we’re talking about a web of media outlets, NGOs and activists who over the course of a decade served as vicious ideological enforces, who sought to deplatform and cancel people, and ruin reputations and livelihoods. A long overdue schadenfreude is not to be unexpected. Indeed, there is much glee over this in many conservative quarters.

Another sign of a turning tide is the implosion of the DEI racket. In wake of the BLM movement in 2020, corporations joined in the messaging of social justice, anti-racism and cancel culture, and fell for the DEI racket which was profitable for consultants and NGOs. However, many corporations and institutions have quietly began to de-emphasise “diversity” and cut back DEI programs. Some want you to forget they were even in on this.

Perhaps economic uncertainty has made the corporate world rethink policies which alienate their own staff and customers who come from the very demographic the race grifters are demonising, and who are feeling the pinch right now. And perhaps they now realise the fallacy of supporting a cause whose fundamental goals are the overthrow of democracy and capitalism, and freely laced with anti-Semitic and anti-Asian sentiment.

Nowhere was this better illustrated than last year’s referendum in Australia, where corporates, celebrities and various institutions all rallied behind a Yes vote, while a strong majority of Australians voted No, repeating the 1999 vote on the constitution. The involvement of corporates, cultural and sporting institutions in divisive issues has gone down like a lead balloon.

While a changing media landscape is cited in the decline of traditional media organisations (print media, TV and radio), neither this nor the economy can be seen as a factor in the spectacular and welcome implosion of the Leftist media and NGO ecosystem which has provided the basis for SJW activism and Woke ideology. Ahead of an election in which Joe Biden (or whoever becomes the nominee should he step aside) could actually lose, morale in their camp can’t be too high.

You might say that October 7 played a part in turning the tide, as a backlash against progressive causes would lead to donations and subscriptions, and hence finance, drying up. But these organisations were showing signs of decline long before then, and the process is just being sped up. Likewise, the backlash against DEI an the Trans cult has re-energised many conservative movements.

Or maybe, just maybe, normal Americans just want to live normal lives. They don’t even have to be staunch conservatives to want just that.