Comment: Saw “Rogue One” tonight. Capsule summary — second half was great; first half, not so much.
What I really thought was hilarious was the way a movie so obviously constructed by SJWs (the cast is painfully “diverse”) accidentally pushes a pro-Trump narrative. Nearly every element neatly lines up with the 2016 presidential election:
– A united Empire (the globalist Left) has just finished construction of its ultimate superweapon (militant identity politics) which they imagine will allow them to completely dominate the galaxy.
– A ragtag group of rebels (the establishment right) is in the middle of launching a desperate but mostly failing effort to resist. Many voices within the rebellion have given up hope and counsel surrender.
– There is also a crazy rebel faction (the Glenn Beck/Ted Cruz wing) that seems more interested in futile, suicidal symbolic gestures than actual victory. They are extraordinarily brave, and die extraordinarily brave deaths, but accomplish little.
– Into this mess steps a group of rebels (the alt-right) who tend to disagree violently on a lot of fundamental issues, but who are strongly united on the necessity of defeating the Empire, and are willing to take extreme risks in pursuit of victory.
– The iconoclastic rebel faction decides to launch a very high risk, very high reward operation in pursuit of victory. The rebel rank and file (average GOP voters), after some hesitation, elects to throw its lot in with the iconoclasts. If they are to die, they figure, best to die in service of something which at least hints at eventual victory, rather than a symbolic sacrifice which accomplishes nothing.
– The rebels receive fortuitous assistance from the fact that the Empire has stupidly gambled on the wisdom of a particular leader (Hillary Clinton) who looks like a bull dyke lesbian and whose judgement is heavily clouded by hubris and ambition.
– The rebel iconoclasts secure a shocking victory, paving the way for a Savior with a bad haircut (Donald Trump) to use the Imperial superweapon’s power against itself to land a killing blow.
Do I have that about right?
