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Not so long ago, if you were a young, male conservative writer with the “wrong” friends and associations or the wrong internet footprint, your career could be vaporized overnight.
And nobody knows that better than journalist and author Scott Greer.
Back in 2017, Scott was climbing the conservative media ladder at a pretty fast pace. He was a deputy editor at the Daily Caller and was appearing on Fox News. Scott was getting a lot of attention for his columns, and he even published a book called “No Campus for White Men,” which was an Amazon bestseller. Scott was clearly going places.
Until he wasn’t.
When the whole Charlottesville hoopla went down, the mainstream media grabbed their shovels and started digging furiously through all things rightwing, and Scott Greer found himself smack dab in the middle of the blast zone.
The first part of the witch-hunt was scrutiny over people he knew, folks he followed online, or was photographed with, or even people he occasionally had beer with. Then, in 2018, the big bomb dropped… old articles Scott wrote under a pseudonym for a website called Radix Journal were uncovered. The biggest problem for Scott was that the site had ties to controversial character Richard Spencer. Once this news got out, the Daily Caller cut ties with him, and the Fox News gigs quickly disappeared.
But according to Scott, his “cancellation” went way deeper than just losing a writing gig or missing out on a Fox blip.
He says it got so bad that the Daily Caller made associating with him such a serious offense that employees could get fired just for hanging out with him.
That’s one hell of a cancellation, right?
And eight years later, Scott’s still here, and he recently sat down with Ann Coulter to tell the whole bizarre story.
Scott walked Ann through his rise, the media feeding frenzy, the Radix Journal writings that blew up his world, and the years afterward when people in conservative media treated him like a leper, as if being in the same zip code with Scott could ruin your life.
But the most interesting part of the story may be what happened next…
The Daily Caller made being seen with @ScottMGreer a fireable offense in 2018. Eight years later, his opinions are the mainstream.
The Washington Post republished his own work and didn’t even recognize him. pic.twitter.com/ViPTGJ8lpY
— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) August 14, 2026
Losing a job is one thing. But becoming some “parasite” other people are afraid to be seen with is a whole ‘nother ballgame.
But, as you can see, Scott’s still here. He didn’t disappear.
He kept writing, and he built his own podcast and audience. He continued publishing his work, and over the next eight years, something very inconvenient happened to the people who had declared him canceled…
The entire conservative world changed.
Scott now says that many of the “wrong” political opinions that made him so radioactive back in the day aren’t so shocking anymore. He says guys like Tucker Carlson and Matt Walsh are making some of his old supposedly career-ending stuff look like a cakewalk.
The boundaries shifted. A lot.
Think about how different the conservative world looked in 2018. Most of us were basically being held hostage by “disinformation” squads combing through our articles, handing out strikes, and throttling our social media reach unless we groveled, changed the wording, and fell back in line. It was censorship, but they called it “fact-checking,” and it created a situation where one “wrong” sentence, association, or opinion could threaten your entire livelihood.
The old establishment was still policing opinions and deciding who was respectable enough to participate and tossing everybody else overboard.
Then Trump, social media, podcasts, independent publishing, X, and an entire insurgent online right kept smashed through those gates.
And speaking of gate-smashing, that brings us to Greer’s new book, Whitepill: The Online Right and the Making of Trump’s America.
The book traces the strange collection of online movements, dissidents, trolls, writers, ideological factions, and political misfits that helped blow apart the old Republican guard during the Trump era. Scott writes from a very personal POV because he was actually part of that movement.
And really, the most fitting part of this entire story is how the guy conservative media once treated like the second-coming of Hitler, is now publishing a history of how the right became the movement we’re in today.
Get Scott Greer’s Whitepill here
Also, we’ll be publishing our own Revolver review of Whitepill soon, so stay tuned for that!
But in the end, Scott Greer is still writing, talking, and pissing off the same people who tried to cancel him.
It turns out canceling somebody is a lot easier than making them disappear.
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