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This is just a taste of what we have to look forward to with four+ more years of Trump. When you let snowflakes run things, they will inevitably do whatever they can to shut down any sort of ridicule about themselves. "Cancel culture" is just them projecting again, they will do the exact same thing they accuse the other side of and amp it up to 11 over seemingly innocent comments. Saying things like "Trump is a jackass" or "Trump is a big fat orange turd" will eventually become offenses. It'll start with late night TV, various shows will get shut down, the things that Trump himself will see. The guard rails are off, so Trump can just order companies to shut down shows he doesn't like.
Remember, Trump spends half his "workdays" JUST watching TV, so him going after programming could be construed as an "official act". After some of the big ones are taken out, Colbert and others, this zero tolerance for ridicule will filter into the rest of the culture. This is how dictators operate, they can't stand being attacked or ridiculed, everyone else has to take them as seriously as they take themselves. Unfortunately, I likely won't be able to say, "Told you so" because internet speech will likely become filtered as it is in China. That's what we'll get if Trump is elected and that some people are ok with that is absolutely mind-boggling, whether you're a Republican or Democrat or Libertarian or whatever, that kind of American society should not be acceptable, but that's what we're moving towards.
They're okay with it because they can't imagine this actually happening. Free speech is so baked in, many can't imagine not having it.