at the highest levels of Biden’s national security team. Biden has also escaped accountability for failing to deter Russia’s invasion of Ukraine; allowing a Chinese spy balloon to drift over the US for an entire week; allowing Beijing to stretch its reach into Africa, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East; enabling a resurgent Iran; straining ties with France and Britain, two vital American allies; and numerous other diplomatic setbacks. CONSERVATIVES’ CULTURAL INFLUENCE IS SURGING Here is the good news, and here is how each of us has made a difference: For the first time in decades, conservatives may have the momentum in the culture wars. Beginning in April, a boycott of Bud Light over the brand’s embrace of transgender ideology has caused
Anheuser-Busch’s sales and stock price to tumble. Then, in June, backlash over Target’s marketing of LGBTQ-themed products to young children forced the chain to backtrack, as it also lost market value. Conservatives even flexed their cultural muscle in Los Angeles of all places, organizing a protest over the Dodgers’ honoring of an anti-Catholic group of drag queens for the club’s “pride night.” This summer, the low-budget film Sound of Freedom, with its explicitly Christian messaging and themes, outperformed woke Hollywood films like the latest Indiana Jones sequel and The Little Mermaid remake. More recently, populist ballads “Try That in a Small Town” (Jason Aldean) and “Rich Men North of Richmond” (Oliver Anthony), a melody poured out by a man alongside his trailer, truck, and dogs about the hardships of working- class Americans today, have become cultural phenomena. These songs soaring to the top of the charts and generating more plays than today’s pop icons has inspired a rethinking of what is truly “popular” amongst the public, highlighting a larger trend of artists and cultural figures bypassing the liberal gatekeepers who have long dominated the entertainment industry.
While you’ve likely heard about many of these stories from some establishment outlets, they’ve all inevitably been accompanied by the same tired explanation that “industry trends” are driving down the stock price of Anheuser-Busch and Target, while the popularity of Sound of Freedom and “Rich Men North of Richmond” are just inauthentic hype manufactured by high-profile conservative voices. What the mainstream media is terrified to admit is that it’s all part of something bigger a growing rejection of the left’s long dominance of American culture. These storylines certainly weren’t the first pivotal developments the media ignored, and with the 2024 election now on the horizon, they certainly won’t be the last. But as the public grows wise to the deception and misdirection, corporate press C-suites will likely continue to find that fewer and fewer people are tuning in at all.
Shane Harris Shane Harris is a writer and political consul- tant from Southwest Ohio. You can follow him on Twitter @ShaneHarris513.
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