Dalton Trumbo wasn’t a hero. He hated his country and wanted to see a totalitarian ideology imposed upon it. He worked for the enemy.
In today’s Hollywood, none of that matters. If you were a Communist, all is forgotten and apparently forgiven. This is the man Hollywood regards as some sort of freedom-crusading activist. In real life he was the exact opposite of one.
In making a movie whitewashing Trumbo’s life and his ardent belief in one of the most murderous ideologies of the 20th Century, that says far more about Hollywood and its values than it does about the Communist Trumbo it wants to clutch now to its bosom.
Defending membership in the Communist Party (then or now) is akin to defending membership in a neonazi organization.
The media refuses to concede this. Sees nothing wrong with the ideology and in fact attacks the critics of Communism as “witchhunters” persecuting non-Communists with the false charge of Communism. Except they are Communists in allegiance to a foreign power and the squawking hens knew it and know it and cannot rationally defend it.