“Something is wrong if the so-called cancellation culture gets more attention than the struggles that millions of Americans are facing,” Stelter said.
When Republicans focus on topics like Mr. Potato Head, The Muppets and Culture, they are tackling what they believe are leftist attacks on traditional families and traditional family structure, Filipovic noted. The Republican Party has no legislative solutions to those ‘non-problems’ and, frankly, does not want them. It is Democrats and progressives who propose actual legislative solutions that would help solve the problems that families – traditionally or not – face in the US are facing. “
And CPAC ties in closely with Fox News as the topics discussed often reflect what the network prefers to highlight. “CPAC is actually a live recording of Fox,” said Stelter. In a CPAC speech Friday Rep. Matt Gaetz was referring to Mr. Potato Head as “America’s First Transgender Pop”.