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Another speaker, Amanda Milius, is the daughter of John Milius, who was the
screenwriter for the first two Dirty Harry films and Apocalypse Now. She grew
up in L.A. and wound up in the Trump administration. She argued that America
needs to get back to making self-confident movies like The Searchers, the
1956 John Ford Western. This was an unapologetic movie, she asserted, about
how Americans tamed the West and how Christian values got brought to “savage,
undeveloped land.”
This is about as dumb a reading of The Searchers as it’s possible to imagine.
The movie is actually the modern analogue to the Oresteia, by Aeschylus. The
complex lead figure, played by John Wayne, is rendered barbaric and racist
while fighting on behalf of westward pioneers. By the end, he is unfit to
live in civilized society.
Right-wingnuts are fundamentally unable to see how their view of America's past,
and "what made America great," is 100% *wrong*. Hartung and Hawley and Cruz and
Rubio and *every* right-wingnut shitbag posting here are unfit to live in
civilized society. They need to be exterminated.