Cancel Culture Wants To Drive Conservatives From The Public Square

 BY TONY PERKINS/FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL JANUARY 29, 2021

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If the cancel culture thought they'd have a pushover in Mike Lindell, they were mistaken. 

The MyPillow founder has never lost any sleep over the Left's attacks -- and he doesn't plan to start now. 

When a handful of companies decided to drop the popular line over Mike's concerns over the 2020 election, he wasn't rattled. 

He just vowed to stand taller for any business who might be next.

It started over the weekend, when stores like Bed, Bath, and Beyond, Kohl's, HEB, Wayfair, and others abruptly decided to cut ties with the brand because of Lindell's outspoken support for Donald Trump. 

"As soon as I went public [with my frustrations about voter fraud], within a couple of days, all of these box stores got attacked..." 

For the most part, he doesn't even believe the complaints are real. 

What he has found is that these leftists just sit in a war room and create fake accounts that they can use to issue boycott threats to stores that carry certain products. 

"It's a hired hit job by the Left and cancel culture," he said on "Washington Watch" -- just hours before Twitter permanently banned his account.

These corporate executives, Mike shook his head, "They all live in fear. 

Everyone lives in fear. 

That's how cancel culture works." 

At the end of the day, corporate America is so terrified of the liberal mob that they'll succumb to anything. 

"And they're the ones who end up losing, because their real customers are very upset when they make political decisions to blacklist conservatives. 

I'm hearing it from all over the country -- people who are cutting up their credit cards and switching brands because of this targeting." 

We can't let this happen, he insisted. 

We have to send a message. 

"So, I'm not backing down."

And no one else should either. 

Look at what happened when Goya CEO Bob Unanue refused to apologize for his partnership with Donald Trump. 

The Left threw everything they could at the company, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.). 

And what happened? 

Americans rewarded Goya, sending sales 1,000 percent higher! 

Sadly, the conservative folk hero, who Americans rewarded for his conviction by sending profits through the roof, is back under fire -- this time from his own board of directors. 

Apparently, shattering company sales records doesn't matter if you don't have the right point of view.

His comments, the family said, were unacceptable. 

On Fox Business last week, Bob was very candid about where he thought America was headed. 

"I think this is mission accomplished," he said frankly. 

"Mission accomplished by the union, the partnership, the conglomerate of social media, Big Tech, big media and government, big government, for ushering in the dawn of a new world order. 

This great reset.... And the big prize is the United States." 

Unanue's family, who makes up the majority of the board, was appalled. By Friday, they'd convened to punish Unanue, voting that he "must now obtain board permission before making any more media appearances."

"Bob does not speak for Goya Foods when he speaks on TV," third-generation owner Andy Unanue insisted. 

"The family has diverse views on politics, but politics is not part of our business. Our political point of views are irrelevant." 

That might have been refreshing before last summer, when Bob made headlines for refusing to back down from his partnership with Donald Trump. 

After all, corporate neutrality is all most Americans have ever wanted. 

But Goya's situation is different. 

Their CEO was viciously attacked by the Left for praising Trump--and yet, when he did the same for Barack Obama, he was lavishly applauded. 

It was the kind of cancel culture double standard that conservatives have grown to despise. 

When Unanue refused to apologize, Americans didn't just cheer -- they stacked their carts with rice and beans. 

Now, after cashing in on their CEOs courage, the board (following the example of Chick-fil-A's capitulation) seems intent on snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

"I could be fired tomorrow," Bob admitted. 

"It's touch and go." 

All of this despite his public willingness to give the new administration a chance. 

"I was very thrilled to hear Biden call for unity and prayer," he has said. "I respect him." 

But respect isn't enough. 

This corporate mob wants absolute loyalty to the extremists of the Democratic Party. 

And that, Caroline Glick warns, is the scary part. 

By saying that conservatives shouldn't have jobs or banks or places in society, liberals are taking America to some very dangerous territory.

"This incredible hatred," she explained on "Washington Watch," "the demonization of 74 million Americans who voted for Donald Trump... is unprecedented in American history," Glick warned. 

"And it's much worse than what we saw in the 1950s under the McCarthy House un-American Activities Committee that blacklisted communists and communist sympathizers." 

When you have "a fusion of operations and interests and positions being put forward by corporate giants in a political party in the United States -- and that particular political party also controls all elected arms of the federal government -- this... does look a lot more like classical fascism in Italy in the 1930s than... what we're used to in the United States." 

Democrats and their megaphones in the media and Big Tech don't just want to silence conservatives -- they want to repress, ruin, and criminalize them.

That isn't capitalism, Caroline argued. 

It's not the free market system. 

It's a ruling oligarchy bent on replacing American democracy. 

"The kind of power that's being brought to bear today against half of the country -- we've never seen it before. 

It's disturbing. 

And it's very important to talk about it, because people have to be aware. 

They're going to have to fight to to protect their right to freedom of speech and the right to call out what's happening." 

We can't put blinders on, Caroline warned, or we'll be "silenced, shunned, and canceled."

The Great Purge, as she calls it, "isn't about one side seizing the levers of power for itself. 

It is about one side denying the other side the right to even vie for power."

Ironically, Bob Unanue wasn't "vying for power" when he visited the White House last July. 

He was fighting to give the Hispanic community more scholarships, jobs, and opportunities. 

If his board had bothered to check, they might have realized that the man who was leading that coalition, Donald Trump -- the same Republican they want to oust their CEO for supporting -- has done more for the minority populations Goya serves than any president in recent memory. 

"He was really able to break the grip of identity politics that Americans have been under since the time of Obama," Caroline pointed out. 

Before the pandemic set in, there had never been "lower unemployment among African Americans, among Hispanic Americans, and among women in the Trump economy. 

He raised up all Americans across the board."

Today, Democrats are bringing those divisive politics back in a way that's truly incredible. 

The last thing any corporation should do is punish leaders who think Americans deserve better.

Lindell believes most CEOs are in such a hurry to do the mob's bidding that they don't stop to consider conservatives' buying power. 

They're playing the short game of appeasement, which almost always backfires. 

And they make these irrational decisions -- alienating entire consumer bases -- based entirely on fear.

"You know," Mike pointed out, "I have 2,500 employees. 

We're like a big family. And they know -- we've been down this road before. 

When I spoke out in the Rose Garden about bringing God back into our schools and reading our Bible, I was attacked then too." 

Looking back, he said, "I guess it's good that we went through that before, so we know it's not real. 

People come out and support us even more -- and the losers end up being the big box stores that thought they were satisfying the Left. 

In the end, they're losing out on the sales from the other stores that have stuck with us. 

They make the money, and they get the customers."

A good example is Costco. 

"They said, 'We're going to stick with MyPillow and with our contract.' And, boy, they're busier than ever... And so, people have to look at what's real and what's not." 

In the meantime, Mike insisted, "I'm standing up for every business they think they can boycott."

When people call Mike and ask, "Is there hope?" 

Despite all that's happening in our country and to him personally, he doesn't hesitate. 

"Absolutely," he tells them. 

"God's got his hand in all this. 

I put 100 percent of my faith in the Lord." 

And we should too.

The cancel culture would love nothing better than to shut up Christians and drive them from the public square. 

That's a lot harder to do when we refuse to live in fear of anyone but God. 

"The Lord is on my side," the psalmist says. "...What can man do to me?"

It takes a lot of courage to speak the truth when your livelihood is on the line. 

So when these business leaders are attacked -- like Mike Lindell and Bob Unanue -- we need to support them. 

Originally published at Family Research Council - reposted with permission.

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