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Meet The Supervillains Ruining America

Peachy Keenan’s latest book, Supervillains: Architects of America’s Decline, is funny, concise, and surprisingly profound.

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Along with annoying girlbosses, forced diversity, and predictable narratives of class oppression, one major signifier of a wokeified product is the complete inversion of good versus evil. Creators of popular entertainment deconstruct heroes and reimagine them to be privileged jerks with sinister motives, while they redeem villains by imbuing them with justifiable reasons for their villainy. In accordance with this, the creators of the past 15 years have churned out endless slop telling a familiar story from the villain’s perspective or deliberately making the hero flawed to the point of becoming unlikeable.

Naturally, writers will pretend that this treatment adds dimension and nuance to their stories, exploring common tropes and themes from different sides and subverting harmful narratives. In reality, it makes an incoherent, dissatisfying mess of the story and deprives it of any deeper moral meaning or lessons about the human condition. If woke entertainment succeeds in anything, it is to erode clear moral standards and relativize good and evil. No one is good or bad, nothing is right or wrong, and everything is a matter of perspective.

Not only has this mindset ruined modern entertainment, but it has also done the same to political and cultural discourse and in the same way. No one is simply good or evil — except Donald Trump, of course — they are simply acting according to their beliefs or “their truth.” Consequently, it becomes impossible to judge people with power and influence. Even if what they do is horribly unjust and destructive, they can never be called evil.

But what if these individuals really are evil? What if they knowingly do harm in the interest of enriching themselves, amassing power, and picking on those who are weaker than them? Would it not be more appropriate to label such people villains — even supervillains — to be clear on who means to destroy the country and make life miserable for everyone? And wouldn’t this be good to know before voting in the midterm elections this coming November?

It most certainly would, which is why writer Peachy Keenan has written Supervillains: Architects of America’s Decline. With her usual wit, Keenan catalogues today’s worst people actively destroying the country. The list is long and includes well-known figures from science, politics, business, culture, and academia. Although leftists are usually the ones deeming their opponents evil, Keenan demonstrates that conservatives have the much stronger case. Moreover, these problems will only worsen if conservatives remain ignorant about their perpetrators.

In the interest of relevance and keeping her book to a manageable length (290 pages instead of 2,900 pages), Keenan limits her review to the present day, although many of the names got their start during the dark days of Covid six years ago.

As such, she begins with the public health........

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