Lauren Boebert, the congresswoman from Colorado, just blocked me on Twitter. This comes as no surprise, given that she follows in her MAGA mentor Donald Trump’s footsteps.
In 2017, I was also blocked from then-President Trump’s Twitter account for defending the Affordable Care Act — which was keeping me alive through cancer treatments — until the courts forced him to stop blocking critics online.
The radical right wing increasingly lives in an echo chamber and a bubble of its own making, where critical voices are hushed and critical theories are attacked. The party that so loudly opposes “cancel culture” is all about canceling speech with which it disagrees.
