We've seen numerous examples of "cancel culture" over the past few years, where a past mistake by a politician or celebrity results in their utter downfall, particularly if their blunder related to race, gender, or sexual orientation. Yet Justin Trudeau has managed to survive two such incidents - the first when he was accused of groping a woman at a beer festival, and the second when photos of Trudeau wearing blackface and brownface emerged during the current election campaign. Writer James Di Fiore says the blackface photos offer an opportunity for both the left and right to re-examine "cancel culture" and start sparing people from suffering for past mistakes, often made decades ago. He says the left clearly needs to revamp its orthodoxy "that requires people with past sins to walk the proverbial plank of cancel culture," and the right needs to stop trying to turn cancel culture around every time someone on the left is caught up in it.