CANCEL CULTURE CLAIMS ANOTHER SCALP: NY Times Assistant Who Edited Cotton’s ‘Send in the Troops’ Column Resigns.

The New York Times staffer who edited Sen. Tom Cotton’s infamous “Send in the Troops” column has resigned from the paper more than six months after its publication.

Adam Rubenstein, a young editorial assistant who previously worked at The Weekly Standard, was thrust into the media spotlight last summer after the Times itself reported that he edited the notorious June submission in which Cotton called for the feds to deploy American troops into cities to suppress protests against police brutality. The column sparked a staff-wide revolt and prompted the resignation of opinions editor James Bennet.

Rubenstein left the newspaper this week, The Daily Beast has confirmed. His exit was announced—with little fanfare—in an internal Slack channel for Times staffers on Thursday. Neither Rubenstein nor the newspaper immediately responded to a request for comment.

I don’t know if Rubenstein considers himself a conservative, or merely worked at the Standard as a stepping-stone to the DNC-MSM, in the same way that Jennifer Rubin, Megyn Kelly, Dave Weigel, and Oliver Darcy all got their start at right-leaning outlets. But merely having the Standard on his resume and publishing an editorial with a viewpoint that 58 percent of Americans agree with made him a man with an enormous target on his back at the Times. Once again, the amount of acceptable opinion shrinks ever-tightly at the far left, and safetyism-obsessed Gray Lady, as Bari Weiss noted before she too departed:

Some thoughts from the Times’ new owner:

All is happening in accordance with the prophecy: