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There is no community on planet Earth more privileged and insulated from reality than Hollywood, and yet despite this – or perhaps partly because of it – the almost entirely Left-wing faction of above-the-line Hollywood (the “creatives” like directors and actors) fancies itself to be a courageous part of what they see as The Resistance to the fascist regime of King Donald Trump.
For example: Entertainment Weekly reports that season two of the Marvel superhero series Daredevil: Born Again is set to premiere on Disney+ on March 24, in case you’re a masochist and want to mark your calendar. Because Left-wing Hollywood can’t simply tell a good story but feels compelled to shoehorn propaganda into every show, the new season will mirror the brutal reality of life in America under Trump’s totalitarian boot-heel.
To give you some context, the plot line of season one has gone roughly like this: a powerful crime boss and businessman (because businessmen, especially white ones, are evil, don’t you know) named Wilson Fisk has become the mayor of New York City and begun exerting authoritarian control: declaring martial law and targeting vigilantes such as the blind Daredevil with an Anti-Vigilante Task Force (AVTF). Entertainment Weekly says the new season chronicles “the rise of the resistance,” and describes the AVTF as operating “in a similar capacity to the Trump administration’s ICE, snatching dissidents off the streets and locking them away in an undisclosed warehouse filled with cages.”
Except that ICE isn’t “snatching dissidents” off the streets but rounding up felons who are in our country illegally and deporting them. But hey, don’t let facts get in the way of your forced progressive messaging.
As Entertainment Weekly puts it, one scene in season two depicts a task force official storming into a Cypriot restaurant in search of someone. The restaurateur calls him a fascist, a term the Left now uses to describe anyone who disagrees with them politically. According to the series showrunner Dario Scardapane, the intent of this scene was to echo the Turkish invasion and occupation of Cyprus. “What we’re seeing happening in the streets of New York in Daredevil: Born Again happened in Cyprus in 1974,” he says. “So if you go back to the historical rise of autocrats, whether it’s Nero, whether it’s Pinochet, whether it’s Franco, they follow a script.”
He doesn’t explain what that “script” is, but it’s telling that he specifies two autocrats, Pinochet and Franco, who happened to be Right-wing (the label would be anachronistic in the case of Nero). Of course he’s not going to name any of the Left-wing examples that abound, from Robespierre to Stalin to Mao.
Entertainment Weekly also notes that the all-black AVTF uniform “resembles masked members of the real-life Immigration and Customs Enforcement,” although Scardapane clarifies that the costume design is over two years old. It’s important to note also that ICE agents are masked not to anonymously instill terror in the populace, but to protect the agents and their families from the harassment and violence of Left-wing ideologues, who demonize ICE as the new Gestapo.
Another scene in the series reportedly shows AVTF agents abducting a woman from a bodega and throwing her in an unmarked black van. Scardapane says this was meant as an homage to the 2013 film Fruitvale Station, based on the controversial killing of a young black man in 2009 by a Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) officer who accidentally drew and fired his pistol instead of his Taser. Scardapane falsely calls this incident “another historical example of strong-arming disenfranchised communities.”
Again, ICE agents are not “strong-arming disenfranchised communities,” if there even were such a thing in America today, but protecting communities from felons and gang members here illegally, who continue to commit heinous crimes under the protection of activist Democrat judges.
Scardapane, Entertainment Weekly says, acknowledged that he and Marvel executive producer Sana Amanat recognized what they see as the parallels with Trump and ICE as they edited the episodes in post-production. Scardapane says “things got into an art-imitates-life place.”
Amanat agreed and then proceeded to expose her own Left-wing worldview by telling Entertainment Weekly that the new season is really about collective resistance to systemic oppression. “What’s interesting about this is that the villain becomes a part of the system and controls the system,” she opined. She then diminished the main character himself by seeing Daredevil as less of a superheroic individual and more of an inspirational emblem of “the collective”:
So what does a character like Daredevil — who’s not a traditional hero. He’s not Captain America, he’s not Spider-Man, he’s very much someone who is a complex character into himself, realizing that he needs to become the symbol that fights back and realizing also that there is power in that collective. He can become a symbol so he can create power and motivation in a collective and that the power is ultimately with the people. I think that’s a powerful story.
That’s not a powerful story. That’s heavy-handed agitprop. Why not just get rid of superhero Daredevil altogether and, in a nod to race-baiting agitator Al Sharpton’s infamous struggle with the English language, call the show The Collective: Resist We Much?
This take on the Marvel series is reminiscent of the long-running Progressive Law & Order series on NBC, which always touted that its stories were “ripped from today’s headlines.” If the Daredevil: Born Again filmmakers really want to get cutting-edge and relevant, they could create a storyline that reflects the reality of New York City today instead of the Progressive fantasy: have Daredevil square off against Muslim-communist, autocrat Mayor Zohran Mamdani. Now that would be worth watching.
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