I had little to do with the fall of the Berlin Wall 35 years ago. Like the billions who grew up with the monstrous structure, I thrilled to watch it get torn down by Germans on each side of it. And I celebrated the man responsible for the glorious sight, in journalism and fiction, although he was no longer President. Ronald Reagan brought down the Soviet Union with a singular vision which dispelled a 70-year-old belief — that the Cold War was the permanent status quo. He’d articulated it a decade earlier and shaken the world. “Here’s my strategy on the Cold War,” Reagan said. “We win, they lose.” You can almost feel sorry for the poor, indoctrinated Zegler, discovering the limits of her Hollywoke bubble. I felt the same elation two weeks back on Election Night, but with an added thrill. This time, I’d done my bit to save the West — by covering the Culture War. I chronicled how Donald Trump turned the tide, as Reagan did. And he too was shot and nearly killed in the process. But while both men were attacked by the media and their political opposition, Trump by far got the worst of it. (READ MORE from Lou Aguilar: Trump Victory Is the American Counter-Reformation) Reagan’s inner circle — James Baker, Michael Deaver, Attorney General Ed Meese, Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger, and, yes, Vice-President George H. W. Bush — were mostly loyal to him. Yet many on Trump’s team — Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, Army Chief of Staff Mark Milley, National Security Advisor John Bolton, others — kept stabbing him in the back. Worse, though still traditionally rulebound in the Eighties, by Trump’s time, both the media and the Democratic Party had fused into one massive Swamp Dragon that blew fire on him pre, during, and post his presidency. Trump endured hoax after hoax — “White supremacists were fine people”, “Inject bleach”; lie after lie — “Veterans are sucker and losers,” Hunter’s laptop was Russian disinformation; impeachment after impeachment — abuse of power, incitement of insurrection; indictment after indictment — falsifying business records, mishandling classified documents, trying to overturn the 2020 election, many more; assassination attempt after assassination attempt — July 13, September 15; and finally opposing candidate after opposing candidate — Joe Biden, Kamala Harris. Trump beat back all of them and stood tall. Then, in the biggest Republican electoral landslide since Reagan, also winning the popular vote. But politics, as my late mentor Andrew Breitbart most famously said, is downstream of culture. And the Culture War is my beat, and my literary frontier. Consequently, I knew long before the last election what the enemy forces would be. I’d been exiled from Hollywood after making producers money writing about strong men and beautiful women — by weak men and unattractive women, in other words, feminists. Disdain for Obama and support for Trump sealed my fate. Understanding the Left’s hatred of masculinity and femininity led me back to my first loves — journalism and fiction. My initial article for The American Spectator, an astounding six years ago, posited how Hollywood would never greenlight a sure hit like Taken. Because the concept of a loving macho dad brutally rescuing his nubile teen daughter from minority white slavers is anathema to modern PC producers. Today, they would rather lose money by imposing unwanted fantasy dreck about butt-kicking women (Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, The Marvels), mutating boy-friendly franchises into girl-driven flops (Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Mad Max), and defeminizing beloved fairy tales. On that third point, nothing has been more unintentionally entertaining than Snow White starlet Rachel Zegler being a one girl wrecking crew against her movie, once trusted Disney, and the beloved film that built it. As I wrote last summer, Zegler obnoxiously ridiculed the original Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs as “weird, weird” and Prince Charming as “a stalker.” “She’s not going to be saved by the Prince,” Zegler snorted. “And she’s not going to be dreaming about true love. She’s dreaming about becoming the leader she knows she can be.” Scratch every romance-loving girl and mom from the potential audience. A panicked Disney delayed the movie till next year, had Rachel issue a hostage-video apology, then sent her into hiding. All seemed tranquil until the Night that Wrecked Hollywoke — Trump’s blowout of Kamala Harris. It drove Zegler back into the spotlight with a Trump Derangement Instagram screed against his voters, the traditional family base for a Disney film: I find myself speechless in the midst of this. Another four years of hatred, leaning us towards a world I do not want to live in. Leaning us towards a world that will be hard to raise my daughter in. Leaning us towards a world that will force her to have a baby she doesn’t want. Leaning us towards a world that is fearful. I shouldn’t be this shocked. But I am. I am heartbroken for my friends who awoke in fear this morning. And I am here with you. To cry, to yell, to hug. To wax poetic on how the left continues to fail us in forging a new path forward. This loss should not have been. And it certainly should not have been by so many votes. Zegler ends with the coup de grace on Snow White and possibly her career, an actual threat. “May Trump supporters and Trump voters and Trump himself never know peace.” Naturally Disney made her walk the plank again with another groveling insincere apology. “I let my emotions get the best of me,” Zegler wrote on Instagram.” Hatred and anger have caused us to move further and further away from peace and understanding, and I am sorry I contributed to the negative discourse.” (READ MORE: We Can Be Heroes for One Day — Election Day) “This week has been emotional for so many of us but I firmly believe that everyone has the right to their opinion, even when it differs from my own,” she continued. You can almost feel sorry for the poor, indoctrinated Zegler, discovering the limits of her Hollywoke bubble. If she thought November 5th, 2024 was a rough night, she should wait till March 21st, 2025, premiere date for Snow White. She’ll be begging Trump voters to fill those empty theater seats. ___________ “You got a problem with women in combat?” Amy asked. “More than the Chinese will when they take us on,” said Slade. If you approve of Trump’s pick for Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, you’ll like Mark Slade, the ex-Army Ranger turned DC private eye in my shockingly timely new political thriller, The Washington Trail, available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and wherever fun mysteries are sold. The post The Night That Wrecked Hollywoke appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.