This “coming out” of Kanye West and Kim Kardashian in support of free expression (even of unpopular opinions), and the former being explicitly pro-Trump, is the latest—and biggest—escalation in that ongoing saga. It is easily the biggest victory in the culture war since Trump defeated the NFL during the kneeling protests.

As the late Andrew Breitbart always said, “Politics is downstream from culture.” And few things are more pervasive than pop culture and celebrity culture, which dominate our television sets, our movie theaters, and social media. If more dominoes fall—and they will—then the Left’s iron grip on pop culture will be weakened. That surely would be the death knell for their movement’s hopes of stomping out all opposition. But it would also signal a renaissance of culture and art. For stultifying, one-sided opinion damages more than just our politics. It makes everything ugly, banal, and uninteresting.

The other element of this, of course, is the picture that the mainstream media is most terrified to have you see: popular Black Trump supporters. Just as Kanye’s celebrity status represents a threat to the Left’s cultural stranglehold on the country, his status as an African-American icon could threaten their electoral stranglehold on a key demographic.