Marvel’s Daredevil Bravely Takes on Trump, ICE
There is no community on planet Earth more privileged and insulated from reality than Hollywood, and yet despite this – or perhaps partly because of it – the almost entirely Left-wing faction of above-the-line Hollywood (the “creatives” like directors and actors) fancies itself to be a courageous part of what they see as The Resistance to the fascist regime of King Donald Trump.
For example: Entertainment Weekly reports that season two of the Marvel superhero series Daredevil: Born Again is set to premiere on Disney+ on March 24, in case you’re a masochist and want to mark your calendar. Because Left-wing Hollywood can’t simply tell a good story but feels compelled to shoehorn propaganda into every show, the new season will mirror the brutal reality of life in America under Trump’s totalitarian boot-heel.
To give you some context, the plot line of season one has gone roughly like this: a powerful crime boss and businessman (because businessmen, especially white ones, are evil, don’t you know) named Wilson Fisk has become the mayor of New York City and begun exerting authoritarian control: declaring martial law and targeting vigilantes such as the blind Daredevil with an Anti-Vigilante Task Force (AVTF). Entertainment Weekly says the new season chronicles “the rise of the resistance,” and describes the AVTF as operating “in a similar capacity to the Trump administration’s ICE, snatching dissidents off the streets and locking them away in an undisclosed warehouse filled with cages.”
Except that ICE isn’t “snatching dissidents” off the streets but rounding up felons who are in our country illegally and deporting them. But hey, don’t let facts get in the way of your forced progressive messaging.
As Entertainment Weekly puts it, one scene in season two depicts a task force official storming into a Cypriot restaurant in search of someone. The restaurateur calls him a fascist, a term the Left now uses to describe anyone who disagrees with them politically. According to the series showrunner Dario Scardapane, the intent of this scene was to echo the Turkish invasion and occupation of Cyprus. “What we’re seeing happening in the streets of New York in Daredevil: Born Again happened in Cyprus in 1974,” he says. “So if you go back to the historical rise of autocrats, whether it’s Nero, whether it’s Pinochet, whether it’s Franco, they follow a script.”
He doesn’t explain what that “script” is, but it’s telling that he specifies two autocrats, Pinochet and Franco, who happened to be Right-wing (the label would be anachronistic in the case of Nero). Of course he’s not going to name any of the Left-wing examples that abound, from Robespierre to Stalin to Mao.
Entertainment Weekly also notes that the all-black AVTF uniform “resembles masked members of the real-life Immigration and Customs Enforcement,” although Scardapane clarifies that the costume design is over two years old. It’s important to note also that ICE agents are masked not to anonymously instill terror in the populace, but to protect the agents and their families from the harassment and violence of Left-wing ideologues, who demonize ICE as the new Gestapo. --->READ MORE HERE
Marvel’s Daredevil: Born Again is no longer trying to hide what it’s doing.
In a new interview, the Season 2 creative team openly acknowledged that viewers will see parallels to Donald Trump and ICE in the new episodes.
That comes after Season 1 already failed to break onto Nielsen’s Top 10 streaming charts, despite launching with a two-episode premiere on Disney+.
Marvel says the Trump and ICE comparisons are real
Entertainment Weekly reports that Season 2 leans into Wilson Fisk’s authoritarian grip over New York, with his anti-vigilante task force operating in a way the outlet directly compares to ICE.
The series includes scenes involving black-uniformed agents, cages, raids, unmarked vans, and the roundup of people off the street.
Showrunner Dario Scardapane admitted the real-world comparisons became obvious while finishing the season, saying that in post-production, things moved into an “art-imitates-life place.”
Executive producer Sana Amanat also embraced the angle, framing it as a story about an autocratic figure using the system against marginalized communities. --->READ MORE HERE
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