The following excerpt is from “Off Brand: Why Russell Brand Is The Latest Celebrity To Fall Out Of Favor With The Authoritarian Left”, which was first published on The Daily Wire. Click here to read it there. The political Left has officially kicked actor Russell Brand out of their trenches and into no man’s land.“I once admired Russell Brand. But his grim trajectory shows us where politics is heading,” declared Guardian columnist George Monbiot.“We have lost Russel Brand,” echoed The New Statesman, bemoaning his descent into “right-wing signaling.” And The Spectator published a piece called: “The unmaking of Russell Brand: How the left’s hero fell out of favour.”All of this about the man who was once called “the best thing that has happened to the left in years.” SEE ALSO: CNN invents new ‘insidious’ form of racism Brand is now part of a growing number who ran afoul of the progressive dogma over one tiny little thing and discovered quickly how censorious the modern Left is. He joins Piers Morgan, J. K. Rowling, Bill Maher, Joe Rogan, Bari Weiss, Naomi Wolfe, Elon Musk, and other far-from-conservative-but-nevertheless-disowned-by-the-Left celebrities that have found themselves in the same place.The reality is, the comedian, like the others, would still define himself as a liberal. But the classic liberal of the ’90s who “spoke truth to power,” fought against crony capitalism and big business, and was at the forefront of protecting freedom of speech no longer has a home in the new political Left in America.Click here to read the rest of the article on The Daily Wire.Mark Meckler is president of Convention of States.
