Conservative commentator Dan Bongino schooled producer Craig Mazin on the “failure of socialism” Thursday after the creator and writer of HBO’s “Chernobyl” praised a tweet by horror icon Stephen King that compared the Soviet-era disaster to Donald Trump’s presidency.
The feud started early Thursday after Mr. King wrote that it’s “impossible” for him to watch “Chernobyl” without thinking of the current president.
It’s impossible to watch HBO’s CHERNOBYL without thinking of Donald Trump; like those in charge of the doomed Russian reactor, he’s a man of mediocre intelligence in charge of great power—economic, global—that he does not understand.
— Stephen King (@StephenKing) May 30, 2019
Mr. Mazin responded that he’s “pleased” the novelist has been watching the miniseries “smartly.”
First, I am so pleased that you’re watching.
Second, I am so pleased that you’re smartly watching.
Not that there was ever a doubt. 😉
— Craig Mazin (@clmazin) May 30, 2019
That’s when Mr. Bongino, a Fox News contributor, chimed in to claim that the Chernobyl disaster in 1986 was a “failure of socialism” and contradictory to Mr. Trump’s policies.
Why do Hollywood elitists continue to publicly humiliate themselves on twitter? Chernobyl was a failure of socialism (where the govt controls the means of production), the exact opposite of the Trump deregulation and tax cut agenda. https://t.co/F1vXtlaVF1
— Dan Bongino (@dbongino) May 30, 2019
Mr. Mazin fired back, claiming that the disaster was a really a “failure of humans.”
Chernobyl was a failure of humans whose loyalty to (or fear of) a broken governing party overruled their sense of decency and rationality.
You’re the old man with the cane. You just worship a different man’s portrait. https://t.co/WSDeOyzMkB
— Craig Mazin (@clmazin) May 31, 2019
Mr. Bongino then apologized to his followers for recommending the show and said he would no longer watch it moving forward.
The Trump-hating producer of the @HBO series “Chernobyl” thinks I’m a socialist. Proving again that the stupid ceiling in Hollywood is extremely high. More on my show today. @HBOPR https://t.co/mdnpLE9nnc
— Dan Bongino (@dbongino) May 31, 2019
“Every budding tyrant in history has claimed collectivism’s 100% success record of failure is due to ‘human failures’ not the system,” Mr. Bongino wrote. “This is the Trump-hating producer of @HBO’s ‘Chernobyl‘ falling right in line.
“Only a clueless Hollywood elitist could produce a historically accurate series such as ‘Chernobyl‘ and come away with the message that socialism wasn’t the issue,” he added.
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