Just when I think you couldn't possibly be any dumber...

In the past year a widely held belief that was something of a Hollywood open secret finally became headline news: that Tinsel Town is crawling with sexual predators and pedophiles. Accusations came out faster than we could keep track of. None was more demoted by the events than Harvey Weinstein, who lost his powerful career. What was most telling was not just the sheer number of allegations, or the corroborating testimony by others such as restaurant workers, but his own Hollywood buddies expressing regret that they didn't do more to stop it. In short, everyone in Hollywood knew what was going on, including, we assume, many of the young ladies who accompanied Weinstein in their quest for the spotlight.

In this context, the Golden Globe awards - held just a few weeks ago - decided to respond to the new reality that Hollywood is a cesspool of degenerate filth by lecturing the American public about sexual assault. Truly amazing. And like a big, beautiful cherry on top, they made Oprah their keynote lecturer, who has been pictured being semi-intimate with....Harvey Weinstein. It's as if, and this is not an exaggeration, it's as if in the year after the Gulag Archipelago was released, the Soviets put on a production lecturing other countries for their policing activities. It's that absurd, at least.

The Grammy's were held last night. Now I haven't watched any of these awards shows in decades, but the reports are that they really outdid themselves. It featured - I swear I'm not making this up! - Hillary Clinton reading excerpts from Fire & Fury, the book that no once cares about but people who already loathe Trump and always will. If there is possibly a more ridiculously partisan political signal they could have sent out, please let me know. I can't fathom it.

Here's the irony in all this. There is a world of difference between open secrets that everyone knows are true but maintain a facade of plausible deniability, and open secrets that lose the facade of plausible deniability. Case in point: Weinstein. What is the difference between Weinstein the Hollywood mogul who has his way with an endless stream of hot young women, and Weinstein the disgraced outcast who may end up in prison? Plausible deniability. He no longer has any. He did several months ago. Now he doesn't. Even his own people turned on him.

What is the major effect of the Grammy's having Hillary Clinton reading anti-Trump fan fiction? The wholesale loss of plausible deniability that Hollywood isn't just a big left-wing propaganda factory. We used to say (as of yesterday) that propaganda in America is much more powerful than, say, Soviet Pravda-style propaganda, because in Russia everyone know state propaganda was just state propaganda, whereas in America people believe the media is actually impartial. This stunt with Hillary lifts the veil. They can't possible pretend any longer that Hollywood is anything other than a mouthpiece for liberal political ideology. It is completely undeniable. The whole sham is exposed.

There's a point that's been made numerous times on this blog, but it bears repeating. Even if Trump was not a good president, even if his policy changes were terrible (they aren't), he is worth supporting because he drags the demons out of the shadows. No longer can anyone possibly pretend the media isn't primarily an outlet for liberal propaganda any more than they can pretend Weinstein isn't a serial sexual predator. It's not just something widely believed to be true. It is now inescapably true. Just like no one on the right could possibly believe that Republicans like Graham, McCain, Flake, or Romney are remotely conservative. They've been exposed. If all Trump's presidency consisted of was just the stupid parts, like Tweeting responses to Jay-Z, but he continued to drive the left to destroy their own cover of plausible deniability, then he's worth more than 60 RINOs in the Senate.