The Root of Cancel Culture and Its Consequences: Focus Talk Interview Since Election Day, there have been more and more cases of cancel culture. People have been denied services, fired from their jobs, or banned from social platforms because of their political views. Regarding the increasingly alarming topic of cancel culture, Jenny Chang, the host of NTD’s Focus Talk, interviewed Dr. Frank Turek from Summit Ministries Online and Professor Frank Xie from the University of South Carolina. When asked about the origins of cancel culture, Dr. Turek asserted that it began with Vladimir Lenin. “[Cancel culture] came out of the Soviet Union with Vladimir Lenin. And it came with the whole Marxist movement into the United States,” Turek said.