The American media have vacillated since 2013 between “cancel culture isn’t real” and “cancel culture is a good thing.” This week, they have decided finally that it’s terrible.

The only problem is that what they now refer to as “cancel culture” isn’t really so.

Conservative activist Charlie Kirk was assassinated in Utah last week by someone who appears to be a hard-core left-wing political fanatic. Immediately after Kirk was shot at long range in front of a massive crowd, hundreds if not thousands of everyday professionals, from teachers to veterinarians to nurses, took to social media, using their real faces and names, to celebrate his death. Some posted dances, others simple text. Some uploaded videos of themselves laughing maniacally about it.

In Greenville, South Carolina, for example, a teacher wrote on social media that "American [sic] became greater today. There I said it." In Virginia, a Newport News public school teacher said, "I hope he suffered through all of it.”

In Clay County, Florida, an elementary teacher said in what was also perceived as a reference to President Trump, “This may not be the obituary [we] were all hoping to wake up to, but this is a close second for me.” At East Tennessee State........

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