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TOP OF THE DAY by Howard Polskin

Aug. 14, 2025

Greetings! Get ready for the anti-Communist film festival that will likely land in DC next fall.  Hollywood in Toto reveals that the event is taking shape “at the perfect time.” Funds are still being raised by organizer and journalist Mark Judge, who is reaching out via social media to luminaries like James Woods, JD Vance and Ann Coulter for support so that he can rent a theater.  Movies slated to be screened include “Dr. Zhivago,” “Red Dawn,” “The Year of Living Dangerously” and “The Lives of Others.” Wonder if Trump will offer The Kennedy Center…On Tuesday, I linked to an essay by writer Arthur E. Sowers who expressed fears about the possibility of Trump renaming the country.  That prompted another Righting subscriber Mark Scheerer to suggest that Trump might call America Trumpistan. Here’s my idea: maybe he’ll rename it Trance.  That uses the first two letters of his last name.  It also subtly conjures the over-the-top elegance of France’s Palace of Versailles which aligns with Trump’s garish tastes. And the name also reflects the mental state of Senate and House Republicans as they mindlessly allow Trump to operate without any guardrails whatsoever…The Federalist reports that earlier this week their office in a posh part of DC was essentially blockaded by “drunk, belligerent vagrants”…The White House Wire included a link from the Wall Street Journal in yesterday’s post. That’s the first time since June they’ve linked to the Journal and it may signal tensions between two camps are subsiding….If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard