What Trump’s win means for Hollywood
The entertainment industry should turn away from its 2016 attempts to influence politics
With the 2024 US election now done and dusted, with Donald Trump having won the popular vote and Republicans holding majorities in the Senate and the House of Representatives, the traditionally liberal stars of Hollywood are understandably shocked, deflated and anxious about what a second Trump term may mean for their industry.
In 2016 when Trump first won, Hollywood seemed to relish the opportunity to use its cultural influence to fight against the conservative establishment. Alec Baldwin took on the role of the president for Saturday Night Live and won an Emmy for his parody and Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale, an adaptation of the dystopian novel by Margaret Atwood, won awards for its presciently terrifying depiction of a world overtaken by the Christian far-right. The rage that many had felt at Trump’s win by means of the electoral college and not the popular vote, motivated creatives to get up and do something to ensure that it wouldn’t happen again. Joe Biden’s 2020 win a...
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