LoL. When you’re on the world stage, forming policy decisions on the basis of fictional movies is probably not the best look.
“JD Vance defended his past unsubstantiated claims that early waves of Italian, Irish and German immigration led to higher crime by citing the movie “Gangs of New York.”” NYT, 8/19/24
It’s not only that Vance cites the film like it was a doctoral dissertation. It’s also the hypocrisy.
Woke coastal elites are the people’s enemy UNLESS you want to conjure one of their made up tales for political cover.
When you have pretend values it makes perfect sense to lean on pretend stories to substantiate them.
