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In the wake of a recent poll which only confirmed what Donald Trump’s election landslide proved – that celebrities have become politically irrelevant – Hollywood continues to rage impotently against the new President with their tired, old, ineffective smears that he and his new administration are “fascists” and “Nazis.”
To recap: the Left has spent every waking moment since Trump announced his presidential run back in 2015 trying to demonize him as Hitler 2.0. The coordinated media smearing of Trump as a more dangerous fascist than Benito Mussolini was so relentless and demonstrably false that it ultimately backfired; last November, voters rejected the fear-mongering propaganda and embraced a positive, hopeful movement to make America great again.
But the Left refuses to take the lesson to heart. Hollywood in particular still teems with bitter, angry, self-righteous elites who cannot accept that those cisgender white nationalists in the flyover country they so despise voted this fascist strongman into the White House. To paraphrase the quote attributed to film critic Pauline Kael about Richard Nixon, “How could Trump have won? Nobody I know voted for him,” the Hollywood elites wonder.
One giveaway that the Left was hyperbolizing about Trump was their kneejerk (ab)use of the word “fascist,” which they won’t or can’t even define correctly. To the Left, “fascist” is the go-to label for anyone and anything that stands in the way of their lust for one-party hegemony – and no single person is more of an obstacle to that obsession than Donald Trump. In fact, “fascism” is best defined by the man so closely associated with it that he is called the Father of Fascism – Il Duce himself, Mussolini: “All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.”
This is a Big Government slogan. This is the slogan of a Party that wants to consolidate all power into a State that maintains that power by crushing dissent.
But Trump is a man who campaigned on dismantling the Deep State, and in whose first couple of weeks in office he has taken a wrecking ball to the bloated, corrupt bureaucracy of an out-of-control federal government. But Hollywood won’t let the truth get in the way of a necessary narrative.
As an example: last Saturday at the International Goya Award event in Spain, erstwhile heartthrob actor Richard Gere was honored with an award and – as Hollywood anti-Americans do – took the opportunity to bash President Trump: “We’re in a very dark place in America, where we have a bully, a thug, who’s the president of the United States.”
Gere, you may recall, said all the way back in 2016 that Trump is “a guy who’s obviously Mussolini,” a “clown,” and a “demagogue.” This is the same Buddhist actor who fretted in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks that the mass-murdering terrorists were “creating such horrible future lives for themselves because of the negativity of this karma” and urged Americans to offer jihadists the medicine of “love and compassion.”
In another instance of Hollywood’s insistence on flogging the dead horse of calling Trump fascist, the industry rag called The Hollywood Reporter (THR) published a recent piece by Scott Roxborough and Patrick Brzeski compiling 40 of “The Best Anti-Fascist Films of All Time.” Roxborough and Brzeski, THR’s Europe Bureau Chief and Asia Bureau Chief respectively, begin by declaring that the article is timely “in the wake of Elon Musk’s Hitler-like salute at Donald Trump’s inauguration,” which they call “a gesture that sparked outrage and reinvigorated the cultural conversation about fascism’s alarming reemergence.”
The article goes on to blather about the contemporary threat of “authoritarianism,” “tyranny,” and “unchecked power,” which the authors clearly associate with the rise of Trump, whom they mention a few times. And it urges readers to muse upon the movies in the list – from Casablanca and Cabaret to Schindler’s List and American History X – and find the inspiration to “remember, reflect, and resist.”
First, Musk’s salute at Trump’s inauguration was not a “Hitler-like” sieg heil but a gesture of love and gratitude from Musk to the crowd. It was an innocuous gesture that literally every politician on earth has been photographed similarly making at one time or another, including Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and Kamala Harris. Every serious human being acknowledges this; no serious human being believes Elon Musk is a white supremacist. Only the propagandists of the Left declare otherwise, because Leftism is the politics of personal destruction, and this ugly smear against Musk is designed to mark him as the apotheosis of evil.
Second, the gesture did not “reinvigorate the cultural conversation about fascism’s alarming resurgence.” There was no “conversation” – only shrieking propagandists like the authors of this article, on the one hand, seizing an opportunity to paint their political opponents as Nazis, and serious adults on the other hand refuting their lies.
There is no alarming resurgence of fascism. What the Left calls the rise of fascism is actually a resurgence of patriotic opposition to the woke madness and Big Government leviathan of the Biden administration. The MAGA movement is demonstrably not fascist; if anything, leftists are the real fascists. Consider the thuggish brownshirts of Antifa, whose very name ironically means “anti-fascist” – terrorist shock troops enforcing the anti-democratic agenda of the Democrat Party. They’re not anti-fascist; they are the fascists.
Trump is the anti-fascist President. Yes, he is wielding power – as any president would, and should. He is not wielding it, however, to grow the power of the state but to diminish it. His record number of executive orders have been directed at exposing and eradicating government corruption and inefficiency, disempowering federal law enforcement agencies that had been weaponized against American citizens, and dismantling subversive ideological programs like DEI initiatives. And he is doing all this with a mandate from the American people.
Feel free, Hollywood and the rest of the Left, to continue your failed strategy of demonizing your opponents as Nazis and fascists. We’re moving forward with making America exceptional again, and you’re simply shrieking into the void.
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Richard Gere is the idiot who said WAR HAS NEVER SOLVED ANYTHING unless that Drugs and Booze idiot never thought about the American Revolution(Too lost in the Land of Smoke and Mirrors)to think straight
The Hitler meme is so yesterday. Decades old. They called Nixon Hitler, Then Reagan. Then Bush. And now Trump. It’s amazing the we’ve survived this long with all of those Hitlers running around.
Hitler was Time Magazines Man/Person of the Year in 1938
That’s right. Accept no imitations..
Beloved by liberals like Charles Lindbergh and Time writers who thought that socialist and statist thought was a correct intellectual way forward for humanity.
I will never understand why people are so ready to quote actors and revere them as wise. Anyone who makes a living out of impersonating others obviously doesn’t have much in the way of brains. There are obviously a few exceptions – only a few – like Ronald Reagan.
Reagan wrote his own speeches while working for G.E.
Those speeches resonated loudly because they employed facts & examples to make a solid case for Capitalism over Communism.
As is so common reading Mark, I am struck by how nice he is.
Let’s do a little clarification that is NOT based upon media reports, white papers, think tank research, or in depth investigations.
But is based upon actual experience with regional level activists: Activists in charge of multi-million dollar NGOs. Activist lawyers funded by the NGOs (which we now know are taking our money). Bureaucrats who run state and federal agencies. And so on.
These people are fascists. And.
They hate your guts.
Until you wrap your head around that, you just don’t understand what’s going on.
The irony is palpable. As is often the case with leftists, their protests are projection. Trump is taking the ax to THEIR long term fascism, grifting and corruption and they are screaming like a bunch of guinea hens. Their lack of self-awareness makes watching them an odd form of tragic entertainment.
When films about October 7th start coming out from Israel, it is up to us to be hyper-vigilant about the Limited Screenings of them here, and FLOOD the theaters when they show. We can FORCE Hollywood to deal with reality if we are smart about it.
…and we can split Hollywood over this.
I have a proposal: As a parallel to the actions at the end of WWII by the U.S. Army in control of areas around former extermination camps run by the Nazi party, whereby local residents were marched through the camps to witness firsthand the atrocities committed by the Nazi party (see for example https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/film/german-civilians-forced-to-view-atrocities-committed-in-buchenwald), all of the Democrat operatives and camp followers who have been responsible for funding Hamas, Hezbollah, and other Islamic terrorist groups through USG agency and NGO channels (such as USAID and others) should be required (as a condition of receiving any buyout or other form of remuneration from the U.S. taxpayer) to sit through documentaries of the Oct 7 massacre that reveal the full details with no deletions for “raw content.” They should have the consequences of their actions burned into their memories.
That might sicken a few, but probably a lot of them would want copies to watch later! Never underestimate the SICKNESS of the LEFT!
I’ve long said that the left/DEMOcrats are self-loathing people. They are miserable in their lives no matter how much money or fame they have – that INNER SELF LOATHING drives them to make OTHERS miserable as well!
Maybe you’ve noticed how many “celebrities” are now doing silly, stupid commercials! It’s almost as if there are no roles for them in movies or tv shows – well, WHO’s getting those roles? Why pay a white, beautiful WOMAN big bucks when you can use any old trans of color for less?
As far relying on any actor for political or ANY advice? There are a couple I would accept – Mr. Eastwood and Mr. Woods. Most actors can do one thing – act – that’s it! Why would anyone take advice from someone who primarily lives in a make believe world? Not me!!
One way I look at advertising – how much LESS could they charge ME if they weren’t paying some “celebrity” to push their product?
Best idea I’ve heard in a very long time!
“failed strategy” is wrong. It is a failed religion. These people are afraid of being ignored in a similar fashion to their experience in high school.
Relationships among people are built around shared interests. The shared interest among a free people are fairness under the law. And the pursuit of happiness. The shared interests among a fascist people are serving those who share the plunder of other peoples money. It is becoming clearer with each passing day that endless piles of taxpayer money is being spread all around the planet to gain favor. The democrat party is also not unlike the first King of the divided kingdom of Israel named Jeroboam. He worked to lead his people to worship other gods for fear of losing his kingdom too the true God.
When one chooses the worst person to try to smear someone there is really nowhere left to go. So keep clinging to that slender thread lefties.
How predictable that the Progressive Democrats should launch another assault on its opposition by going to its favorite tyrant, one whose party policies and tactics mirror their own.
It should be clear by now (and should have been clear many decades ago) that the Democrat Party is a criminal organization with foreign support that is masquerading as a U.S. political party. In many respects it is not unlike the NSDAP (Nazi party) of 1930’s Germany or Mao’s CCP (both of which borrowed heavily from Lenin and Stalin for their methods and ideology). The Democrat Party tactics are Stalinist-Leninist to the core, including 1) theft of elections, 2) political show trials, 3) party-controlled gulags, 4) establishment of a party police force (a la Gestapo or NKVD), 5) subversion and transformation of the military by removing those who might be a threat to the party and installing political commissars at the very top, 6) use of allies in the media to transform that sector into a propaganda arm of the party, 7) leveraging media and the corporatocracy to censor, defame, demonize, and delegitimize any opposition, 8) mafia-like control of unions, 9) use of Antifa/BLM and FBI/DoJ street thugs as provocateurs, disruptors and enforcers of party tyranny, 10) capture and subversion of the justice system through use of financial dark pools, international networks, and media allies to swing elections for DAs and control of the courts, 11) infiltration and subversion of the education sector to promote party propaganda and Marxist-Leninist ideology at all grade levels and erase/rewrite the history of the Republic, and 12) use the power of an illegitimate regime installed through a coup d’ etat and the control of the legislative branches by party apparatchiks to fund massive Maoist/Stalinist social engineering programs that dismantle the cultural, legal, financial, and institutional foundations of the Constitutional Republic.
It is way past time that this so-called “party” and its apparatchiks be treated the same as the Nazi party at the end of WWII. It is a cancer on the body of the Republic and must be excised if there is to be any hope of restoring the Republic’s Constitutional foundations and liberties that the founders bequeathed to its citizens. We have a hard road ahead before such restoration can be achieved. There are hopeful signs in the actions of the new administration, but it is still early in this fight.
Yes, it is time to undo the Democratic Party.
Excellent points.
The Democrat Jackass is running off the Cliff again always too stupid to turn back
Very well said. The Democrat Party is the new wave Nazi Party but its adherents are too stupid to realize it. The propaganda has been quite successful.
They are demoniacs – They revel in their own shit – Dress in the finest threads and live in mansions – but they revel in their own shit – They lie because their god (Small g) is the father of lies – lucifer or satan – they spew lies like their god satan spewed lies to Yeshua and about Yeshsua -aka- Lord Jesus Christ – so I look at them and know from where their fruits are and it is not with eternity – President Trump is not a “Godly man” (neither is the pope) = President Trump is the man from YHVH who proved this July 13, 2024 –
For youth, President Trump is a mentor on how to stay focused and strong and to get stronger forged by fire as President Donald J. Trump has .
These HellyWeird mudda fukkaz are actors, hypocrites who could not withstand one hour of what President Trump has endured since he ran for POTUS in 2016 and they kept ratcheting up the persecution and assaults hitting him from all sides at once and look who prevailed and look who collapsed in heaps of their own steaming dung!
What I don’t understand is: since when did the advice and opinions of overpaid professional fools, clowns and ignorant jackasses (i.e., entertainers) matter? Are we the American people suppose to heed and acquiesce to the advice and opinions of demonstrable morons? Why, because they’re rich and photogenic? Where and when did being rich and photogenic equate to being intelligent and wise? (The stupid bastard that though up that idea should be shot but I digress.)
No nation that heeds the advice and opinions of fools, clowns and ignorant jackasses deserves to survive. That goes for America too.
Hitler was a Vegan just like Former Beatle Paul McCartney who forces all his stagehand to Go Vegan
THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE is on the list of great anti-facsist films.. It occurred to me, years later, that it is supposed to show what a horrible person Miss Brodie is when she is knocked gaga by Mussolini, may he rot in hell. Will Rogers was also knocked gaga by Mussolini. If Miss Brodie had been knocked gaga by STALIN, may he rot in hell, it would have been considered McCarthyism to hold it against her. Franco’s Spain took in a certain number of Jews who fled Hitler, may he rot in hell
Some book recommendations that reveal how deep and how far back the socialist/communist rot in Hollywood goes: 1) Hollywood Traitors (by Allan Ryskind); 2) Hollywood Party (by Lloyd Billingsley); 3) American Betrayal (by Diana West); 4) Blacklisted by History – The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy (by M. Stanton Evans); 5) Witness (by Whittaker Chambers).
McCarrthy was Right on the Money about the Evil Commies back in the 1980’d Hollywood made the Leftists Propaganda movie REDS
As long ago as 1944, GeorgevOrwell called for people to use thr word “Fascism” with “a certain amount of circumspection and not, as is usually done, degrade it to the level of a swearword.” “As I Please” in The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell, Volume 3, As I Please, edited byvSonia Orwell and Ian Angus, Penguin : Hammondsworth, 1968, pages 135-139, 138-139.
Haven’t set foot in a theater since 1986 and pay zero attention to show biz nor pro sports.
Life is fine.
When box office receipts start falling Hollywood will come crawling back to the land of reality.
If Hitler had learned to repackage genocidal hatred of Jews as “Anti-Zionism” and emphasized the “Socialism” in “National SOCIALISM”, he’d be an idol to people like Michael Moore, Susan Sarandon, George Clooney and John Cusack. They’d peddle movies that celebrated his early struggles, much like “The Motorcycle Diaries” was a paean to Che Guevara, a racist, homophobic murderer.
Hollywho?
These clown voices are not relevant to most of us…
I don’t watch these fools.
Moe, Larry and Curly make more sense… Bullwinkle too…