Jonah Goldberg, Right Wing News

Amid the umpteen conferences, panels, meetings and informal conversations in the wake of the presidential election, this idea has been a near constant among conservatives who feel like the country is slipping through their fingers. Mitt Romney and the Republican National Committee combined raised just more than $1 billion, and all we got are these lousy T-shirts. Since conservatives are losing the culture, goes the argument, which in turn leads to losing at politics, maybe that money could be better spent on producing some cultural ammo of our own?

It’s a bad idea.

Let’s first acknowledge that Hollywood is overwhelmingly, though not uniformly, liberal. Hollywood constitutes a major part of the Democratic Party’s financial base and, arguably, the constituency liberal politicians fear — and revere — most. That’s why all of the post-Newtown talk of the Obama administration “going after Hollywood violence” was nonsense from the outset. Continue reading.