Interesting. “Cancel culture” was trying out it’s tyranny in the 1980s:
I remember Dwight Schulz was recounting a story where he was with Bruce Paltrow (Gwyneth’s dad and a powerful tv producer - also a second cousin to the execrable Gabrielle Giffords) and Paltrow was saying the most vile things about then-President Reagan and it just made Dwight sick to his stomach. Paltrow knew Dwight was a Republican and had went out of his way to stymie his career by not casting him on “St. Elsewhere.” A real world-class a$$hole Brucie was. He died fairly young of oral cancer.