Hollywood actor and “Reagan” biopic star Dennis Quaid unleashed a blistering critique of the entertainment industry’s radical political transformation, declaring that the once-open creative culture has been overtaken by far-left orthodoxy that now punishes dissenting viewpoints.
During an interview with Pastor Greg Laurie, the 71-year-old actor didn’t mince words about how dramatically the culture in Tinseltown has shifted in recent years.
According to Quaid, opinions that would have once been considered moderate or mainstream are now labeled “extreme” or controversial, the New York Post reported.
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“The Things have gone so extremely, so far left right now,” Laurie said during his conversation with Quaid.
“I saw a podcast — it was Bill Maher and Dana Carvey, and I’m forgetting the other guy’s name — but anyway, I think it was Dana Carvey said, ‘I’ve told my friends in Hollywood I’m a Clinton Democrat, and some of them are calling me a Nazi now.’”
Quaid said that “you can’t do that,” and compared being a Clinton Democrat to being “a neo-con, on the right side or whatever. What used to be, you can’t be anymore.”
The actor then described himself as a “common-sense independent,” although he said he tends to “lean more conservative in my head.”
“I’m just for common sense, is really what I am,” Quaid said.
Later in the podcast, Laurie asked Quaid about spending time with President Donald Trump.
He called Trump “very surprisingly approachable and very funny, and really genuine. He wouldn’t be president if he wasn’t genuine, because the people who voted for him, they know that he has their best interest at heart.”
