One of the reasons that Donald Trump did so well with the American public is that he’s a salesman. He knows how to talk to people and he knows what they want to hear. Can you imagine listening to a speech by Mitch McConnell? Not only is he a hopeless boob of a speaker but he doesn’t have a clue about what the voters want. And he doesn’t care. So even in politics you need someone with people skills.
But my point is that politicians can only fight a battle against the Left in Washington and the state capitols. And, no doubt, winning the political wars is important. But what is just as important and what has been completely neglected is the social life of the Right. Currently we are not served by any of the corporations that provide cultural products and services. In fact, the opposite is true. Books, movies, games, music and entertainment of all sorts are specifically and intentionally curated to exclude anything that might appeal to the Right.
Go to Amazon and look for books that appeal to you. You’ll be fighting an uphill battle even if you already know the names of some. And when they recommend other books (as they always do) they seem to be selected from the LGBTQ Book of the Month Club. And forget movies and tv. The number of tolerable selections is miniscule and also hard to find. And that goes for music, games, comedians, dating services, sports channels and on and on and on.
Recently a very few social media outlets like Rumble and Truth have come into existence. But these are primarily political outposts that currently have only a small following and don’t fill much of a niche in terms of “social impact.” And I think the reason for this is that no one with a true huckster’s skills has arrived on the scene. What is needed is a showman to orchestrate an exciting and engaging social experience. Someone has to look intelligently at this enormous underserved market and identify a way to make a ton of money serving it.
And honestly, there’s no reason why someone doing this wouldn’t be able to make money off of the rest of the market that isn’t right-wing. Maybe the blue-haired cat ladies and LGBTQ freaks would boycott it but regular progressives are just as interested in getting stuff at a reasonable price as we are. You can sell the same dog food and toilet paper to everyone from Karl Marx to Ronald Reagan. All you have to do is make sure that you have an aisle in your “store” that has our stuff too.
I’m surprised that supposed geniuses like Elon Musk and Peter Thiele haven’t recognized the opportunity to go head-to-head with Bezos and Hollywood. They could make a fortune. And all they’d have to do is package it all with some glitz and showmanship. There’s a demand for wholesome entertainment for children. And it could start small. A small studio and a small publishing operation but one that has invested in talented creative types could do extremely well.
This could be a lot more profitable and a lot less expensive than buying Twitter. Taking money away from Disney and Amazon with their lame Star Wars and Rings of Power franchises is a no-brainer. They’ve abandoned tens of millions of fans by making blatantly woke and boring products that ignore the underlying stories that these fans value.
So, Musk, Thiele and anyone else who has money and wants to make more of it, open your eyes and put on your ringmaster’s hat, tails, boots and whip and address the “ladies and gentlemen and children of all ages” to pay their ducats for a chance to enter the tent and be entertained. Just make sure the female trapeze artists are actually women. And while you’re at it, we wouldn’t complain if they were pretty.