Opening Pandora’s Box

Every movie reveals something about the culture that spawned it.

Angelo M. Codevilla who is a Senior Fellow of the Claremont Institute and Professor Emeritus of International Relations at Boston University believes political violence is tacitly condoned and often openly encouraged by Democratic officeholders.

Codevilla notes, “In the 21st Century’s second decade, explicit statements by the party’s principal figures—President Obama, Hillary Clinton, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, to name only a few—have led their epigones in power as well as millions of followers to think and act as if conservatives were simply on a lower level of humanity and should have their faces rubbed in their own inferiority.”

“…We know that the spiral of political violence has already taken its first fateful turns and that the logic of our partisan ruling class is pushing for more,” he continued.

"Did anyone see what our ratfucker-in-chief just did?" one character asks early in the screenplay for The Hunt, a Universal Pictures thriller set to open Sept. 27. Another responds: "At least The Hunt's coming up. Nothing better than going out to the Manor and slaughtering a dozen deplorables."

According to a published report by the Hollywood Reporter, Universal Studios employees in different departments were questioning the wisdom of making such a movie in these times.  One filmmaker with ties to Universal asked, “In light of the horrific [recent shootings] is this not the most craven, irresponsible, dangerous exploitation?”

A day after the Hollywood Reporter reported the studio was reevaluating its strategy for the film, and that ESPN had already pulled an ad, Universal took additional action. "Out of sensitivity to the attention on the country’s recent shooting tragedies, Universal Pictures and the filmmakers of The Hunt have temporarily paused its marketing campaign and are reviewing materials as we move forward," a spokesperson said. 

The act of rubbing our noses in our inferiority began when the owner of a Lexington, VA Red Hen restaurant refused to serve White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders and her family and asked her to leave.

In June of last year, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) told a crowd in California, “If you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd and you push back on them and you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere.”

Last month, conservative journalist Andy Ngo was beaten by the violent political activist group Antifa in Portland, OR.  Along with cuts and bruises, Ngo suffered brain trauma for which he was hospitalized overnight.

Democrats and their dysfunctional media minions, in the wake of the Dayton and El Paso shootings are now unabashedly calling President Trump a white supremacist.  Calling him a Russian asset during their fever dream of collusion ended when former Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s testimony proved to be an exercise in futility.

Where would these degenerates get such an idea?  Answer:  Frank Figliuzzi, former Assistant Director for Counterintelligence at the FBI during the Obama Administration and national security analyst for MSNBC floated a crank suspicion that President Trump’s order to fly the nation’s flags at half-staff through yesterday, August 8, to commemorate the victims of this past weekend’s mass shootings was a coded salute to Adolf Hitler.

In some twisted secret fantasy to undo the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, the left appears to condone the spiraling political violence and, so it would appear, is pushing for more.

Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-TX) tweeted the names and employers of 44 San Antonio residents who donated to President Trump’s reelection campaign.  In doing so, Castro targeted American citizens for exercising their First Amendment rights.  He has refused to disavow his actions.

When I can’t wear a red baseball cap with the logo of Folds of Honor emblazoned across the front without being challenged while at the grocery store or the gas station, the hate the left has for “deplorables” is a sure sign that something wicked this way comes.