Progressive Delusions Are Fading Fast | The American Spectator

The biggest downside to being blocked by progressive former friends — like most in my old Hollywood circle — is I don’t get to observe their total breakdown as the liberal dreamworld crumbles around them. Yet every argument I made to them was exalted last Fourth of July, when President Trump and his gorgeous First Lady danced on the Truman Balcony as fireworks exploded over the incomparable Washington skyline. The couple were not only celebrating the 249th anniversary of the greatest country in the history of Earth but the best two weeks for any presidency in my lifetime. And though I couldn’t see or hear it, I could feel the wailing of my ex-mates all the way from the opposite coast.

They didn’t need social media to read my views over the past five years — overtly communicated in this publication and more subtly in my novels. The latter defied their Hollywoke masters’ rules by depicting clever masculine white men and sexy feminine women who share a mutual attraction minus phony incursions into each other’s forte. The former rejected all their utopian fantasies — such as women can beat up men twice their weight. But it took a two-week tidal wave to drown many of the Left’s sacred cows, while I surfed it. Here are the fatal five.

Delusion One — Trump Will Cause Global Chaos

The Trump-authorized tactical strike on three Iranian nuclear installations halted, probably forever, the existential threat to Israel and the United States. Instead of provoking World War III (as even some Chicken Littles on the Right shrieked), Iran agreed to a ceasefire with Israel and promised no retaliatory strikes against America. Trump also pressured 31 out of 32 NATO members to increase their spending from two to five percent.

Delusion Two – Only Comprehensive Immigration Reform Can Deter Border Crossings

Last week (July 2), DHS posted that June had the lowest number of border encounters in history, barely more than 25,000 people. “All it took was a new President,” Trump famously said.

Delusion Three — Federal Court Judges Will Delay Trump’s Mad MAGA Agenda

The Supreme Court ruled that federal district judges can’t issue nationwide injunctions blocking laws or policies like Trump’s executive actions. Amy Coney Barrett’s incisive skewer of Ketanji “I’m not a biologist” Brown Jackson’s insipid dissent made the decision doubly enjoyable. “We will not dwell on Justice Jackson’s argument, which is at odds with more than two centuries’ worth of precedent, not to mention the Constitution itself,” Barrett wrote.

Delusion Four — Trump’s Tariffs Will Create Economic Disaster

From June 22 to July 6, gas and egg prices dropped significantly — gas to below three dollars in most states. And the latest BLS (Bureau of Labor Statistics) jobs report cited a gain of 147,000 jobs in June — 37,000 more than expected. The Unemployment Rate fell from 4.2 to 4.1. The report even humbled CNN.

Delusion Five — Transwomen Are Women

Not according to the University of Pennsylvania, which last week bowed to Trump’s de-trans executive action. On Tuesday, the school banned “transgender women” — men — from women’s sports teams. It also agreed to restore the swimming records and titles of female athletes displaced by Lia Thomas, and issued letters of apology to the female swimmers he beat. More schools to follow.

Trump pulled off one more victory last week over the hapless Democrats. Despite a bare Republican majority in the House, Congress passed the Big Beautiful Bill, although every Dem voted against it, and a couple of bad Republicans. Trump signed it on the Fourth of July, which enhanced the holiday celebration, ending with the President and First Lady dancing on the White House balcony to YMCA.

I know who else was dancing — my erstwhile LA comrades — only theirs is the danse macabre. Everything they supported is dying — their principles, their politics, and their careers. The indirect word I’m getting is that as straight white males, they can’t get any work. Because writing or directing different racial characters is deemed cultural appropriation in Hollywoke. And white men are at the bottom of the scale. The irony is hitting them hard.

Even director Danny Boyle threw his 2008 hit film Slum Dog Millionaire under the virtue signaling bus — of course well after it earned close to $400 million worldwide and eight Academy Awards. “Yeah, we wouldn’t be able to make that now,” Boyle told The Guardian. “And that’s how it should be. It’s time to reflect on all that. We have to look at the cultural baggage we carry and the mark that we’ve left on the world.”

This “cultural baggage” is crushing my old gang. But they rode that train to nowhere after I jumped off it — with a helpful shove from them. Now I have something they don’t — the freedom to write anything I want, the credentials to sell it, and the contacts to make it.

I’m writing a script now for a conservative independent producer that would melt down LA even more than the recent fires. I can reveal it here because Hollywood would never touch it. It’s based on a reportedly true story about a KGB plot to assassinate John Wayne in 1950.

Stalin thought Wayne was doing too much damage expelling communists from the movie industry. He believed subverting the arts with Marxist ideology was the best way to indoctrinate the masses. And, boy, was he right. But the turnaround has already begun. And I’m happy to be part of it — unlike my former friends.

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