"62% of conservatives, including 77% of conservatives" -- ? not sure what this means here

What percentage of the residents of Salem were afraid of witches? Does that mean witches were real?

and what, exactly, are these people afraid of? social disapproval? criticism? Try being vocally anti-Trump in the middle of Texas—or, I dunno, the middle of Congress—and figure out what it means to be afraid. Conservatives are afraid of criticism, or being labeled as a racist, or whatever, all while they're packing heat and making threats.

Who in Texas is getting canceled for putting Trump signs on their yard? Anybody in Oklahoma been canceled for a Trump bumper sticker? Arkansas? Mississippi? California? (fun fact about California: it has sent exactly two presidents to the White House, and both were Republicans. Kamala Harris is the first California Democrat to hold national office.)

After a bunch of paid hacks from Dinesh D'Souza to Sean Hannity gin up the bogeyman of something called "cancel culture," of course the Fox News audience will be afraid of it. What percentage of Americans are afraid of a microchip in the Pfizer vaccine?

The fact that people are afraid of something doesn't make the thing they're afraid of real.

So if we want to have a society in which people feel free to debate, this article shouldn't have been published? This article is somehow inimical to free debate? It's a good thing I know cancel culture is some made-up tripe, or I might run around crying that you're trying to cancel me.

This article is an example of free debate. I call b.s. on cancel culture. If you can't handle that, the article is not the problem.