It's a lying game.
Republican politicians and thought leaders pretend they are the victims of unfair persecution ("cancel culture") and censorship in order to 1) encourage a sense of righteous indignation in their base, and 2) create pretext for them to perpetrate actual unfair persecution and censorship when they're in power.
"If they can do it, why can't we?"
Half of the Republican base doesn't recognize this happening, and the other half doesn't care because it's working.


The gender expression fuckery was ahead of its time.