Antonio Sabato, Jr. came to America from Italy when he was just a young boy. He didn’t speak the language of the new country that he now called home, but he was determined to learn.
In a foreshadowing of sorts, Sabato would teach himself to speak America’s dominant language the Hollywood way. He would become fluent in English by watching movies.
Later he would break into the world of modeling and move on to working as an actor in television and film.
Most people are aware that the political pendulum in Hollywood has gone through quite a dramatic swing over the years. What began as a top down system, with studio bosses in control, slowly transformed into a quasi-bottom-up system, which was heavily influenced by agents, lawyers, and enormously overpaid talent.
As I documented in my books and writings over the past couple of decades, when it comes to diversity of political thought, there has been very little permission granted to folks who are working in the entertainment industry to be anything but liberal.
Still, nothing could have prepared Tinseltown conservatives for what was about to happen.
In 2016 Donald J. Trump won the presidency. He took his place in the Oval Office, and it seems as though for Hollywood leftists everywhere, in one fell swoop the gates of Hades blew wide open.
After a few initial days of shell-shock and tears over the election results, Hollywood residents snapped into action. Arm and arm with the Democratic Party, celebrity leftists signed on to the coup, swarmed the media, and worked harder than they ever had to get rid of the president.
Pre-2016 the hatred in Hollywood against those who held contrary political positions was at a steady simmer. Post-2016 it would flat-out boil over, blistering every facet of the business. Direct aim would be taken against any individual who would dare to express even the slightest bit of openness to an opposing viewpoint.
The McCarthy Era would have nothing on the New Hollywood Trump Era.
One after another Hollywood conservatives in Tinseltown would be shown the door.
Enter stage right. Sabato’s political views were routinely unacceptable in Hollywood, but now they would be deadly to his career. Except for the fact that he’s a Hollywood conservative who was in no way going to take it lying down.
He came to the conclusion that conservative creatives needed an alternative place to make the kind of movies and other entertainment product that are now banned by uber-woke Hollywood.
In a recent post on his Twitter account, Sabato revealed his plans for an alternative entertainment company.
"We are putting together a plan to create a conservative movie studio for all patriots to do projects that Hollywood would never do," Sabato wrote. "No more blacklisting and no more injustice from the socialist elites."
A follow-up tweet indicated that Sabato’s studio offered an oasis for conservative filmmakers to join in with the studio’s new film and mission.
"To all conservative producers who want to make a change this is the time, get in touch with me, and be part of our team," the post read. "Right now we are in pre-production with Trail Blazers [Sabato’s upcoming film project] our first in line for many more & first to start our studio."
IMDB describes "Trail Blazers" as a Western drama and indicates an expected release next year.
The film stars fellow conservatives Kristy Swanson and Stacey Dash, along with legendary film icon Robert Wagner. The cast of "Trail Blazers" also has a host of familiar right-of-center actors in Hollywood, including Kevin Sorbo, Scott Baio, Dean Cain, and Lorenzo Lamas.
Sabato is directing the film, which he co-wrote with actress and producer Deborah Twiss, and he will act in the project as well.
It is no longer a secret that Hollywood has no tolerance for anyone who doesn’t capitulate to the "woke" litany of approved beliefs. Artists trying to make it in the rough and tumble business of entertainment have known that they have to stay in what legendary actor Charlton Heston referred to as the "conservative closet."
Sabato declared his support for President Trump at the 2016 Republican National Convention, and since then his career suffered. He recently shared via media interviews what happened to him after his name was firmly engraved on Hollywood’s new blacklist.
"I was the first celebrity to come out and talk about the president, and he had my vote from day one," he told Variety. "I had to sell everything, I had to pay all my debts, I was blacklisted. All my representatives left me, from agents to managers to commercial agents. I literally had to move, find a new job to survive and take care of my kids."
During a recent television appearance, Sabato explained to Fox Business Network host Maria Bartiromo that your future is in jeopardy if Hollywood has disdain for your political point of view or your religious belief system.
"I’ve never seen anything like this before," he told Bartiromo. "I never expected to see it here in Hollywood where you have this liberal world dictating the future of everybody in the business who disagrees with them politically."
He explained that it can be seriously problematic if you bring up God or express your faith by wearing a cross.
He also indicated that there are other Trump supporters in the entertainment industry who are too afraid to reveal their political views for fear they will lose opportunities to work in the highly competitive industry.
Sabato is not completely alone in speaking out about the treatment of conservatives in Hollywood. Tim Allen and James Woods have let it be known their careers were hurt by having the "wrong" political beliefs in Hollywood. And Tinseltown’s bias turned super extreme when comedic actress Roseanne Barr received particularly harsh treatment over a single tweet. She lost her ABC show and her career in part because she was known to be a Trump supporter.
"The amount of people being blacklisted in Hollywood is astounding. I have never received so much support and so much love and also wanting to be a part of my new venture with our new studio. Incredible times and we will do it together!" Sabato recently posted.
Everyone knows you can’t keep a good conservative down.
Something tells me a grateful public is in Sabato’s corner.
James Hirsen, J.D., M.A., in media psychology, is a New York Times best-selling author, media analyst, and law professor. Visit Newsmax TV Hollywood. Read James Hirsen's Reports — More Here.
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