Cancel culture can be a very, very real evil. It has gotten adults fired for Halloween costumes, cost people charity partnerships over old tweets, and bullied universities into withdrawing admissions offers from teenagers over years-old videos.

But punishing a vile politician by a party pulling a politician’s committee assignments, or Congress impeaching a president for committing high crimes or misdemeanors, are not evils or even examples of cancel culture. Instead, they can be necessary correctives.