Cancel Everyone! SPLC Wants to Decimate the Conservative Movement

What do you get when you add Marxist critical race theory to exaggerated “hate group” smears after the horrific attack on the U.S. Capitol? The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has an answer, and it amounts to blacklisting more than half of the Republicans in Congress — if not expelling them altogether. For good measure, the SPLC also calls for the permanent social media “deplatforming” of every “public figure” who questioned the 2020 election results.

The SPLC’s annual “Year in Hate and Extremism” report presented this cancel culture overdrive as the solution to “far-right and racist narratives.” While the SPLC has long branded mainstream conservative and Christian organizations “hate groups,” listing them alongside the Ku Klux Klan, and urging Big Tech to blacklist them, this latest cancel culture demand seems extreme, even for the SPLC.

The SPLC report accuses Trump and the 147 Republican congressmen and senators of inciting the rioters who breached the Capitol on January 6, 2021, even though Trump called for peace and Republicans have condemned the violence and demanded the rioters be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. Neither Trump nor figures like Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) called for a violent attack on the Capitol. They did contest the results of the 2020 election, however.

The SPLC report opens with Trump’s words at the Ellipse on January 6. It quotes the then-president as urging his supporters to “fight like hell,” adding, “we’re going to the Capitol.” The SPLC claims that “with those words… Trump incited a mob that included the hate and antigovernment groups the Proud Boys, the Oath Keepers, and the Three Percenters to storm the U.S. Capitol in an insurrection to maintain white supremacy.”

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