Dre(a)dfully fake outrage

The New Yorker's contribution to the "cancel culture" rage machine is embarrassing.

Last month, I wrote an article about the expansion of Fox News’ annual “War on Christmas” narrative into a year-long freakout, which was itself an expansion on a piece I wrote back in 2018 about how Tucker Carlson Tonight was “the local news broadcast from hell.” For years, right-wing media have stoked the “cancel culture” flames with this sort of outra…