When the Cancel Culture Becomes a Caricature of Itself

John Kass has been a Chicago Tribune columnist for 35 years. For many of those 35 years, his brilliant, ironic, sarcastic, and penetrating writing has appeared on Page 2 of the newspaper.

But no more. John Kass ran afoul of the mob and, true to form, Kass’s superiors and supposed “friends” in the local newspaper guild melted like a stick of butter at a Grant Park picnic in the middle of a Chicago summer. Henceforth, Kass’s column will appear in a special op-ed section that readers will have to hunt for to find.

It’s not just that Kass, a second-generation immigrant, is right of center in his politics. The mob targeted Kass because he wrote a column that speaks the truth about what’s happening in America’s big cities — and why. Their branding of Kass is not about racism, sexism, homophobism, anti-Muslimism, or conservatism. It’s about exercising power. And Kass is getting in the way.

The “why” is a deliberate effort by radical left-wing billionaire George Soros to elect radical left prosecutors in big cities. This is no secret. Numerous publications from the Wall Street Journal to the Chicago Sun-Times have reported on the Soros funding group Open Society bankrolling races for state prosecutors in these cities.