The right is every bit as capable of manufacturing fake outrage as the left. Anybody remember the 1980s, with the “Satanic panic,” people freaking out about Dungeons & Dragons and heavy metal, the Proctor & Gamble logo being Satanic imagery? Silly stuff. Today the left has *almost* a monopoly on manufacturing outrage, but the right can still get in a few moments of oddness. Take, for example, the presumably-forthcoming movie “The Hunt.”

Hollywood blockbuster that satirizes killing of ‘deplorables’ causes outrage: ‘Demented and evil’

From everything I’ve seen, the basic plot is one we’ve all seen before: rich people paying to hunt humans on an island somewhere. The twist here, apparently, is that the rich people are coastal liberals paying to hunt down kidnapped flyover country MAGA-types. That’s different, I suppose, but not really all that unbelievable, especially in a day and age when Twitter bans memes about “learn to code” but leaves unsuspended rich leftists calling for the eradication of Trump supporters.

Some right wingers, and even left wingers, are outraged at the idea of Hollywood depicting leftists hunting down Trump supporters, as they suppose that this is an attempt to celebrate that urge. But… I dunno. Granted I haven’t seen the film and I don’t know how it turns out, but from the trailers it certainly looks like the rich lefties are very clearly the *bad* guys,* and it’s very likely that while most if not all Trump supporters wind up dead, so will the lefties. That’s how this plotline always seems to go. In the end, from the looks of it the flyover-country people will be portrayed as the sympathetic characters on the right side of ethics. So, you know, like in reality.

Not only is this particular “The Most Dangerous Game” plotline old and oft-used, so is the depiction of left-wing power being directly dystopian. Only a few years ago the box office and popular culture were dominated by “The Hunger Games.” What was the basic world depicted there? The United States had collapsed some centuries before, and the society that rose in its place was a totalitarian dystopia run from “The Capital.” Most of America was depicted as a bunch of poor working-class “deplorables” toiling their lives away under the domination of the “elites in the capital… who were depicted as the sort of effete, hateful fashion-obsessed weirdos that we see all too often trying to dominate political discourse. The elites in “The Hunger Games” overdressed in ridiculous impractical clothes and slathered themselves with makeup like an entire mega-metropolis desperately trying to live every day like it was Drag Queen Story Hour. They would not sully their hands with dirty evil guns, but they’re more than happy to surround themselves with faceless armed goons to protect them from the jeans and leather wearing country bumpkins who have been barred the use of arms. “The Hunger Games” depicted an America where the left won and imposed its will… and it showed it to be evil and unsustainable. Even Hollywood seems incapable of dreaming up a world when leftist ideology wins and *doesn’t* become truly horrific. See also “Equilibrium” where everyone is forced onto drugs in order to stop “hate crimes.”

So, hold off on the outrage. Granted, “The Hunt” is produced by the same politically subtle folks who gave us “The Purge,” which is based on the idea that the Religious Right takes over the US and promptly sets about convincing the poor to murder each other, somehow profiting from this. So it may well be that they’ll *try* to make “The Hunt” something to ultimately appeal to the murderous lefties who, like the Dayton shooter, are radicalized and set off by the dangerous rhetoric of extremists like Bubbles Cortez. Perhaps it will end with everybody killing everybody else at the hunting resort… but then it pulls back to see that the Real Head Honchos are still fine, send in a repair/cleanup crew, and kidnap some more deplorables for the next set of rich leftie hunters to go murder. But even if so… Hollywood will still be depicting the lefties as the villains, even if in the course of the movie someone cranks out some nonsensical rhetoric about how right wingers are evil because of this or that leftist talking point.