There has been a long-standing political consensus that the 1950s blacklist was an ignominious time for the country. That is why leadership is needed from both Democrats and Republicans to promote legal protections against political discrimination and lift cancel culture’s malevolent, anti-free speech, anti-democracy cloud from the social and political landscape.

If the Virginia election was not a wake-up call about the woke threat to democracy, then a recent Hill-HarrisX poll should be.