Bette Midler, the cackling witch from Disney’s ‘Hocus Pocus,’ has dusted off Woody Guthrie’s 1940s protest anthem All You Fascists Bound to Lose and given it a Trump-era makeover, rechristening it as a shrill takedown of the former president. In this viral remake, Midler swaps out vague fascist bogeymen for direct jabs at Trump, painting him as the ultimate authoritarian threat while crooning lines that echo the original’s Dust Bowl defiance. Dropped amid a heated election cycle, the track has racked up streams on social media, with Midler’s fans hailing it as resistance music and her detractors dismissing it as geriatric sour grapes from a Hollywood has-been. But let’s peel back the glitter: Guthrie wrote this during World War II to rally against real fascists like Mussolini and Hitler, not to soundtrack celebrity meltdowns over election results.
For the 2A community, Midler’s fascist remix isn’t just tone-deaf entertainment—it’s a flashing red warning light. She and her coastal elite cohort routinely sling the fascist label at Trump and his supporters, conveniently ignoring how that rhetoric has fueled real-world demonization of gun owners as domestic terrorists. Remember Biden’s ATF reclassifying pistol braces or the left’s push for red-flag laws? These are the actual power grabs Midler glosses over while romanticizing Guthrie’s era, when armed citizens were the bulwark against tyranny, not the problem. Her song revives a narrative that equates Second Amendment defenders with brownshirts, priming the pump for more common-sense reforms that chip away at our rights. It’s no coincidence this drops as gun sales surge and concealed carry expands in red states—Hollywood’s hysteria is their way of coping with a nation arming up against the very overreach they cheer.
The implications? This isn’t harmless nostalgia; it’s cultural warfare. By co-opting anti-fascist anthems, Midler normalizes viewing 74 million Trump voters—and by extension, the millions who prioritize self-defense—as existential threats. 2A patriots should counter with our own playlists: crank up some Ted Nugent or Lee Greenwood, and remind folks that the real fascists are the ones disarming law-abiding citizens while protecting elite enclaves. Midler’s bound to lose streams, but the fight for our rights? That’s just heating up. Stay vigilant, stay strapped, and keep voting with your wallet—and your ballot.
