The Most Equal Comrade doesn't have a lot of enthusiastic supporters left these days, but if you're looking for a noteworthy concentration of them, turn your gaze to Hollywood. Gwyneth Paltrow hosted a Freedom-Hater National Committee Fundraiser at which the MEC came to speak. She took gushing to the art-form level, saying that he was so handsome, she could not speak correctly, and that "it would be wonderful if we were able to give this man all of the power that he needs to pass the things that he needs to pass."
It's tempting to fret that this kind of person - the pop-culture celebrity - has some kind of outsized influence relative to that of figures with more seasoned and informed positions. But consider the box-office slump that has plagued Hollywood for some years now, and the dismal state of the recorded-music industry. Also consider the level and type of turnout expected for next month's election. Generic polls strongly suggest that the hopelessly Kool-Aid-besotted types, for all the zeal with which they talk about American imperialism and corporate power and gender oppression and the damn climate, are not very motivated this time around.
Who is motivated? Those with a direct stake in the consequences of Freedom-Hater policies. The MEC loves to talk about the middle class and "expanding the economy outward," but it's those sweating the payroll week to week and wading through the incomprehensible maze of red tape attendant to the most minute pinkie wiggle in realms like health care and the environment who see the ruin wrought by the we-can-fix-anything-with-central-planning technocrat class and its unicorns-and-rainbows sycophants.
So, as vomit-inducing as Gwyneth is, it's important to remember that her money and that of her friends is demonstrably less powerful than the disgust of millions of people who want the United States of America back.
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