Hollywood's Closeted Trump Community Afraid to Speak Out

They say Hollywood liberals have made the climate particularly "toxic" this election cycle.

9.29.2016 

 

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 Tiffany Gabbay 

 

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Hollywood liberals are obnoxiously "in your face" and are good at making the world think they are the only ones who exist in Tinseltown. The truth, however, is that there has long been a conservative community active in the Los Angeles-based entertainment industry, albeit one that operates below the radar. 

Unless already well-established in the industry (like actors Jon Voight and Bruce Willis, for example), entertainment professionals who lean conservative usually have to keep their politics to themselves lest they be professionally ostracized. What's more, presidential elections always bring a heightened sense of tension for conservatives in Hollywood, and given the way Hollywood has vilified Donald Trump, the stakes are particularly high this time around. 

In fact, Hollywood conservatives claim their liberal counterparts in the industry have made the climate positively "toxic."

"There are many people who are voting for Donald Trump but are too afraid to admit it," Trump supporter and founder of the PR firm NPR told TheWrap. "Things have gotten really nasty in Hollywood lately."

According to industry insiders interviewed by the outlet, the climate in Hollywood is really "hostile" this particular election. People interviewed said the tensions were not as bad during the 2008 or 2012 presidential elections, because neither Mitt Romney nor John McCain were as reviled as Trump. TheWrap expands: 

Neal was surprised to see many of his left-leaning colleagues, including some who owe him their start in the industry, post a recent GQ article titled, “If You Vote for Trump, Screw You” on their social media feeds.

“Some stars have gone to the far left this election and are really getting hostile,” he said. “You don’t see that from the other side.”

“There’s an unhealthy tension here right now,” Neal added.

Oscar-nominated writer Lionel Chetwynd, another prominent Hollywood conservative, described the political atmosphere within the industry this fall as “toxic.”

Even Hollywood Democrats acknowledge that this year has heightened the tension toward right-leaning colleagues — because Trump has emerged as a more divisive figure than past Republican presidential candidates.

Heightened? More like completely unhinged considering that every two minutes a new anti-Trump "stop the hate" celebrity public service campaign is launched. We didn't even see celebrities exert this kind of energy over their "free Darfur" campaigns -- and that was a crusade they were particularly concerned about. 

Actor Antonio Sabato Jr. told TheWrap he has been "bullied online and blacklisted by directors" since his appearance at the Republican National Convention in July.

“When you’re in my business, you can’t talk about [conservative] politics,” Sabato Jr. told Variety. “You’re attacked viciously in a way that I’ve never been attacked before.”

But that's the arrogance and hypocrisy of the Left -- forever lecturing us on tolerance when they're the most intolerant group on the planet.