It's about McCarthyism. You know, that guy who went around accusing people of being Communist so he could throw them out of the public stage? The play was specifically written as an attack on that.
Symbolic of Cancel Culture... leftists are eating each other
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No, it's not - it's symbolic of people trying to stigmatize leftism for the purpose of political control. I'm not making that up - Arthur Miller wrote a bunch of essays explaining what the meaning was behind the Crucible.