Cancel monsters’ world of ruin

CANCEL culture just proved itself more powerful than the devil in Prada herself, Anna Wintour. Years-old tweets you made as a foolish, ignorant teen, and later profusely apologized for, mean you can’t be trusted as editor of . . . Teen Vogue.

Alexi McCammond, deemed in 2019 the emerging journalist of the year by the National Association of Black Journalists and supported by Wintour and the rest of top Condé Nast management for the Teen Vogue job, won’t be starting next week as editor-inchief of the fashion and lifestyle magazine after a staff rebellion over offensive remarks posted in 2011.

She was a freshman in college. And when the tweets surfaced two years ago, she apologized and deleted them. She apologized again this month after a couple of dozen Teen Vogue staffers erupted when she was named their new boss.

But in this world the left has created, there is no path to forgiveness. There is no redemption. There is only smug dismissal. Childhood idiocy makes you a pariah for life.

And this misbegotten ideology carries such weight that junior staffers can carry the day against top management. Not just when it comes to teen fashion mags, either: The same dynamic has now purged multiple senior figures at The New York Times. All the old liberals are too scared to cross the radical kids.

But we suspect the radical kids will come to hate the world they created. The cancel monsters will find that no one is pure enough and no one can change. They’ll burn everyone and everything down.