[Wallace T.]

Hollywood had always had more than its share of leftist radicals and liberals. Both Ronald Reagan and Charlton Heston were on the left politically as young men, as was Frank Sinatra. What prevented Hollywood from going totally leftist was the dominance of the first wave of producers and owners, largely immigrants, mostly Jewish, and their sons. They had little use for radical politics, and, at the time, had to appeal to a general audience.

What turned Hollywood into a leftist monolith were the passing of the entrepreneurial founders of the industry and its acquisition by large, bureaucratic corporations. These new owners tended to be run by administrators who came mostly from elite East Coast universities and shared a leftist, secular viewpoint. Michael Eisner, former Disney chief, is a prototype of this type of administrator. Starting with the rise of television around 1950 and continuing to the present, the movie audience became increasingly fragmented. Thus, you could alienate a portion of your audience and still make money. A conservative and Christian boycott of the current industry would be pointless; they largely do not attend movies or watch cable channels like HBO anyway.

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What turned Hollywood into a leftist monolith were the passing of the entrepreneurial founders of the industry and its acquisition by large, bureaucratic corporations. These new owners tended to be run by administrators who came mostly from elite East Coast universities and shared a leftist, secular viewpoint.

And in no small part assisted by Soviet agents of influence. That's what's so laughable about how they're trying to pin Trump's election on the Russians.