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Read Replies (1) | Respond to Bret Easton Ellis: ‘Leftist Hysteria,’ Thought Police Will Create Many More Kanyes breitbart.com Screenwriter and author Bret Easton Ellis believes there’s a backlash brewing against “leftist hysteria” in Hollywood and sees a future where more celebrities, such as Kanye West, rebel against the liberal orthodoxy that has taken over Tinseltown. told the Observer. American Psycho said.said : “I don’t know if Kanye was red pilled exactly,” a reference to how some people are drawn toward and eventually convert to conservatism. “Kanye does not do this in a systematic or literal way: it’s sweeping, metaphorical and inchoate and in the age of digital literal-mindedness.”Ellis sees the seeds for the coming crop of celebrity rebels, sown into the very soil of Hollywood itself: Hollywood is both hysterically emotional about its liberalism, but it’s locked in a major hypocrisy because it is one of the least inclusive capitalist societies that exists—pure corporate culture with corporate rules. Beverly Hills voted for Trump in 2016—one of the only bits of red out here in a sea of blue does not fit into a neat narrative about So-Cal Hollywood liberalism .In July, Ellis was harassed and screamed at by people in the Sunset Tower in Los Angeles, who accused him of being a “Trump apologist” and of “colluding with Russia.” This, after Ellis merely suggested that liberals “get a grip” on their emotions and stop “virtue signaling” when it came to Trump American Psycho writer recently observed on his podcast, the Bret East Ellis Podcast , that by overreacting to Trump, the left was actually letting him win: accept ultimately that he was elected this time around. Or you can have a complete mental and emotional collapse and let the Trump presidency define you, which I think is absurd. … If you are still losing your sh*t about Trump, I think you should probably go to a shrink and not let the bad man that was elected define your self-victimization and your life. You are letting him win.
