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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