From TikTok to 'The White Lotus,' the left is losing its cancel power
Online and on-screen, the woke have unintentionally created a coalition of Americans who are tired of fearfully hiding their politics away.
The cultural tides have turned, if HBO’s “The White Lotus” is any indication.
A scene from a recent episode of the popular anthology series went viral for its sympathetic portrait of a character whose chic coastal-liberal friends abused and belittled her for — maybe, possibly — having voted for Donald Trump in the presidential election.
Surprisingly, it was the vocal Democrats who were the obvious villains of the sequence as they bullied their friend for wrongthink.
It sparked endless online commentary: Is the overbearing, reflexive leftism of the entertainment world really breaking?
At the same time, Woke TikTok was having a similar rude awakening.