CULTURE WAR: The Emmys Prove Once Again That The Culture War Is Trump's Best Friend | Eastern North Carolina Now

    Publisher's note: This post was sent to me by Ben Shapiro, who represents the Daily Wire, and since this is the most topical news event of the day, it should be published on BCN.

    Last (Sunday) night's Emmy Awards crashed and burned in the ratings. And it's no wonder. Thanks to a combination of Steven Colbert's "courageous" attacks on President Trump and celebrations of a bunch of shows nobody watches (The Handmaid's Tale and Big, Little Lies, anyone?), more Americans than ever tuned out. And that follows last year's debacle, when Jimmy Kimmel's hosting carried the show to its lowest rating to that point. Hollywood is sliding, and it can't figure out why.

    Politics does have a lot to do with it. That's because Americans have substituted the culture wars for political dialogue. We no longer care much about policy, apparently - President Trump has spent the last two weeks cutting deals with Democrats, and most Republicans and Democrats don't seem to be backing off their positions with regard to Trump. Trump may be governing as a centrist Democrat, but Hollywood is still painting him as a pure evil, the future leader of a fascist dystopia; Republicans, meanwhile, continue to paint him as a vigorous, burly warrior on behalf of American values. Rarely has a Republican president made so nice with Democrats; rarely has that same Republican president been treated as Nero by Democratic cultural figures.

    Culture wars now matter. The Emmys - and the counterreaction to the Emmys - shift more votes than trade policy. Trump knows this, which is why he retweets gifs of himself hitting a golf ball into Hillary Clinton's back, even as he chats it up with Hillary's good friends Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi. And Hollywood knows this too, which is why they foolishly double down on their overtly political content.

    Hollywood knows that leftists triumph there, but they can't understand why their leftist politics aren't translating over into electoral victory. So they continue to promote more and more radical content. This, in turn, drives more Americans into the arms of the Republicans, even though Republican policy doesn't take a hard line against the policy prescriptions of Hollywood leftists. Andrew Breitbart always argued that culture is upstream of politics. But it isn't merely upstream anymore. It is politics, and policy has been relegated to a dry riverbed somewhere.
Go Back


Leave a Guest Comment

Your Name or Alias
Your Email Address ( your email address will not be published)
Enter Your Comment ( no code or urls allowed, text only please )




Governor Cooper Announces $73 Million in Grants to Fight Crime, Aid Victims Guest Editorial, Editorials, Op-Ed & Politics Partisan Decline is Nothing New


HbAD0

Latest Op-Ed & Politics

far left sugar daddy has also funded anti-Israel groups and politicians in US
Be careful what you wish for, you may get it
America needs to wake up and get its priorities right
Former President Donald Trump suggested this week that if he becomes president again, he might allow Prince Harry to be deported.
It's a New Year, which means it's time to make resolutions — even for prominent evangelical leaders. The Babylon Bee asked the following well-known figures in the faith what they hope to accomplish in 2024:
Vice President Kamala Harris will visit a Minnesota Planned Parenthood clinic, reportedly the first time a president or vice president has visited an abortion facility.
An eight-mile stretch of the Blue Ridge Parkway near Asheville has been temporarily closed due to a string of “human and bear interactions,” the National Parks Service announced.
University of Wisconsin tried to punish conservatives for the fact that liberals regularly commit crimes to silence opposition
most voters think EU officials not doing a good job on illegal immigration

HbAD1

Come from behind by GOP candidate is a blueprint to 2024
Biden spending and energy policies to blame
Tuberculosis carried by illegal invaders has already infected Texas cattle
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said this week that the only campaign promise President Joe Biden has delivered on as president is the complete dismantling of the U.S. southern border.
Hamas is reeling after losing two of their most cherished leaders on the same day: military commander Saleh al-Arouri, and Harvard President Claudine Gay.
President Joe Biden’s brother told the Internal Revenue Service that Hunter Biden told him he was in business with a “protege of President Xi,” referring to the leader of China, according to notes by an IRS investigator that were divulged during a congressional interview of Jim Biden.
Gov. Roy Cooper seeks a temporary restraining order to block a law changing the composition of the State Board of Elections.
X owner Elon Musk mocked a news segment from ABC News this week that promoted President Joe Biden’s talking points about the Democrat-led Senate’s failed border bill, which critics and many experts have said would make the situation on the border worse.

HbAD2

That’s the question Marguerite Roza of Georgetown University’s Edunomics Lab sought to answer in a recent webinar on the topic.
The University of Florida has fired all of its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) employees and shut down its DEI office.
Hot on the heels of its highly publicized television performance on New Year's Eve, the pop-punk band Green Day announced the release of an edgy new album titled Get the Vaccine, Climate Change Is Real, and Trump Is Bad.
Glenn Beck: 'When the United States government can come after individuals, that's when you know our republic is crumbling.'
Rep. Mark Green (R-TN) reportedly blasted Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for “stonewalling” details about the illegal immigrant accused of murdering Laken Riley, a 22-year-old Georgia college student.
Financial asset manager BlackRock said in its annual report that environmental, social, and governance policies could hurt its bottom line after Republican state officials cut ties with the company over its ties to China and climate activism.
Daily Wire host Matt Walsh passed away Monday aboard Southwest Airlines Flight WN2208 after the passenger in front of him reclined her seat and crushed him to death, officials announced.
“The Biden administration's plan in the Middle East is to hand over power to the Palestinian Authority, which literally pays the families of terrorists who murder Jews.”

HbAD3

 
Back to Top