Trump administration cancels cancel culture
The Trump administration struck a blow to cancel culture last week after deep state actors bullied a federal employee out of his job.
Marko Elez is a 25-year-old tech whiz who worked for the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) under Elon Musk. The DOGE team was instrumental last week in shuttering the US Agency for International Development (USAID), a shadowy organization that funds regime changes worldwide under the pretext of “humanitarian aid.” USAID, which is heavily funded by Congress and linked to the US intelligence community, was the center of a scandal last week after DOGE sleuths revealed how it has been using taxpayer funds to push the Left’s agenda in countries around the globe.
Following the scandal, a reporter named Katherine Long who was a USAID operative in Central Asia dug up Elez’s old social media posts and published them in the Wall Street Journal. His posts included “You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity,” “Normalize Indian hate,” and “Just for the record, I was racist before it was cool.” Elez resigned from DOGE amid the backlash.
VP Vance: ‘I say bring him back’
Musk has vowed to bring Elez back on the team after conducting a poll on X asking users to weigh in on the young man’s departure. Seventy-eight percent of respondents voted in favor of bringing Elez back.
Responding to the poll, Vice President JD Vance said: “Here’s my view: I obviously disagree with some of Elez’s posts, but I don’t think stupid social media activity should ruin a kid’s life. We shouldn’t reward journalists who try to destroy people. Ever. So I say bring him back. If he’s a bad dude or a terrible member of the team, fire him for that.”
To users who pointed out that Vance’s children are part Indian, he said: “Racist trolls on the internet, while offensive, don’t threaten my kids. You know what does? A culture that denies grace to people who make mistakes.”
“I cannot overstate how much I loathe this emotional blackmail pretending to be concern,” he continued. “My kids, god willing, will be risk takers. They won’t think constantly about whether a flippant comment or a wrong viewpoint will follow them around for the rest of their lives. They will tell stupid jokes. They will develop views that they later think are wrong or even gross. I made mistakes as a kid, and thank God I grew up in a culture that encouraged me to grow and learn and feel remorse when I screwed up and offer grace when others did.”
Musk responded to Vance: “He will be brought back. To err is human, to forgive divine.”
President Donald Trump said he wasn’t familiar with the incident but sided with VP Vance that Elez should be reinstated at DOGE.
The decision to bring back Elez signifies an end to cancel culture, a Marxist practice wherein those who voice disfavored opinions — mainly conservative viewpoints — are sidelined and ostracized from society. While cancel culture is still prevalent in some institutions, its rejection by the US government may relegate it to a fringe practice.
