Minneapolis and the Anti-Communist Film Festival

There’s no point in holding it back: The left is glad that Renee Good and Alex Pretti have died.

These two protesters had fatal encounters with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers, enshrining their status as martyrs for the left. While no credible person on the right is expressing happiness about this senseless loss of life, it is pretty evident that, in their hearts, many on the left are glad to have a bloody shirt to wave. From fundraising pitches to posts designed to rile up the base on Bluesky and cable news, these deaths have been exploited in an almost mechanical fashion. 

For those of us old enough to remember it, this kind of mind-numbing obsession we’re seeing from the left’s street fighters cannot fail to remind us of the devotion that once gripped members of the Communist Party—both here and abroad.

That’s why this fall, with the co-sponsorship of the Center for Renewing America and the Victims of Communism Foundation, I’m holding an Anti-Communist Film Festival. The timing is good. One thing that becomes clear while screening some of these classic anti-communist movies is how accurate their depictions of leftist behavior were and how little things have changed today. These films still speak to us today and feel downright predictive.

There’s no doubt that right now, executives and screenwriters in Hollywood are preparing scripts for films and TV shows about the “Uprising in Minneapolis,” and that anything that gets close to telling the truth about the dynamics at work will be spiked. People interested in the truth about what moves the left will just have to rely on older films.