A little more than a week after his vulgar anti-Trump rant at the Tony Awards, actor Robert de Niro was repaid in kind at the curtain call of his version of “A Bronx Tale,” the Broadway show.

In the style coined by independent reporter Laura Loomer, a man stood up at the end of the show, rushing the stage with a “Keep America Great” flag. De Niro is the director of the show.

“The times we live in,” wrote Joe Del Vicario, who was at the show. “At the end of A Bronx Tale, a man turned around and faced the audience to show us how big of a pair he has. He was escorted shortly after. It’s sad that people can’t enjoy a beautiful show and embrace its unifying message without politicizing it.”

The times we live in. At the end of A Bronx Tale, a man turned around and faced the audience to show us how big of a pair he has. He was escorted shortly after. It's sad that people can't enjoy a beautiful show and embrace its unifying message without politicizing it. #broadway pic.twitter.com/6tVN4Qf4d6

— Joe Del Vicario (@joedelvicario_) June 17, 2018

But politicizing shows is nothing new for the left. In November 2016, a cast member of Broadway Musical “Hamilton” lectured Vice President Mike Pence after the show. Pence was booed while exiting the theatre.

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“We, sir, we are the diverse American who are alarmed and anxious that your new administration will not protect us.” said a cringeworthy Brandon Victor Dixon on stage.

After the show, Dixon continued injecting his politics into Broadway.

“We really thought this was an important moment to really say something,” he said. “To get in front of an individual with whom we feel we have differences and to make sure that he hears and he sees us.”

According to the new rules set by the left, yesterday’s “A Bronx Tale” protest is simply par for the course. The protestor, after all, was just getting in front of someone with whom he disagrees, right?

No surprise that the left does not want to play by the rules it has created.

To the far-left, there’s nothing worse than white males. To them, everything wrong in the world is blamed on their whiteness, and there is no way to get over those ills until the white man is forcefully oppressed. Just watch any video from Buzzfeed on race for examples of these claims being thrown around.

The leftists at Buzzfeed have been spreading these anti-white claims  for many years, and because of people like them, that same rhetoric has been spread into more mainstream institutions. And as it turns out, the comic book industry is not immune.

While speaking to CBS This Morning, Marvel Comics Editor-In-Chief C.B. Cebulski stated that going forward the company is dedicated to increasing diversity both in their comic book characters, and in their staffing, stating:

“We’re 100 percent committed to diversity…Marvel is the world outside your window and we want not only our characters but our creative talent to reflect that world and it hasn’t been an easy road to be honest with you. Going back to the 60s when Marvel were created it was created by a number of white men here in New York City who were working in our studio… But now, we do not have any artists that work in Marvel. All our writers and artists work — are freelancers that live around the world so our talent base has diversified almost more quickly than our character base has.”

Diversity has long been a contentious topic in the comic book industry, and in Marvel comics in particular. Just last year, a Senior Vice President of Marvel caught flack when he pointed out that decreased sales numbers likely had to do with more diverse characters flopping with their fans compared to more established characters.

It was the scandal around the diversity comments that led towards Marvel taking such a strong position on increased diversity.

It’s no secret that comic books are largely consumed by white males. Looking at any picture from a comic book convention is proof of that. Despite this, Marvel is highly dedicated to increasing diversity in comic books, which, in the eyes of many in the comic book community, is simply Marvels way of saying that comics are too white and too male.

Comic book creator Chuck Dixon recently spoke with Bounding Into Comics to mirror that belief:

“Diversity is code for ‘comics are too male and white, right?’” Dixon stated. “What gave them that right to decide that for their audience. And, trust me, that’s what this is about, making up their audience’s mind FOR them. There”s no real tolerance here. No real diversity. You take their brand of indoctrination or hit the pike. And millions of readers have chosen the pike.”

Dixon has a long history in the comic book industry, co-creating the wildly successful Bane comic for D.C. Comics. Despite his popularity, Dixon has been blacklisted from Marvel Comics for over 15 years for political differences.

His blacklisting isn’t very surprising considering how liberal Marvel has been in many of their comics. They have even gone so far as to demonize conservatives in their comic books, often giving their villains right-wing political positions.

As reported by Bounding Into Comics:

“But if anyone who has actually been reading and following Marvel Comics over the past few years, Marvel has been anything but diverse and reflecting the “world outside your window.” One of the worst examples of this is Marvel writer Nick Spencer. Spencer was given a number of Captain America books to write and he took the opportunity to attack conservative and libertarian values and ideas.

In the first issue of Captain America: Sam Wilson, Nick Spencer decides to turn the long-time Captain America villains the Sons of the Serpent into conservatives who love the United States, believe in the Constitution, and are against illegal immigration.

Spencer wouldn’t stop there. In Sam Wilson: Captain America #5, he would malign exceptionalism, hard work, and free markets.

But maybe Spencer’s most egregious attack was an attempt to destroy the entire brand of Captain America by turning Steve Rogers into an Agent of Hydra, Marvel’s equivalent to Nazis.

Spencer isn’t the only one at Marvel who has used the publisher as a political platform.

In Spider-Gwen Annual #1, writer Jason Latour and artist Chris Visions imagine President Trump as M.O.D.A.A.K. or Mental Organism Designed As America’s King. The character is a riff on the Marvel villain known as M.O.D.O.K. or Mental Organism Designed Only for Killing. The story sees Spider-Gwen team up with an alternate reality version of Captain America to beat up the President Trump look alike.”

So this new move by Marvel likely has more to do with advancing the far-left agenda of demonizing white males in America than actually promoting “diversity.” I wonder if they are going to promote intellectual diversity, and create a comic with a conservative super hero?

Last week, a radio show host slammed ardent #NeverTrump “conservative” Ben Shapiro for his fence-sitting during the 2016 election.

“When we needed you, Ben, with your millions of YouTube viewers, and your millions of listeners, and your brand new radio show – when we needed you to help us stand up against Obama and the Democrats and Clinton – you were MIA, man,” said Rich Logis of the Rich Logis show.

“You were nowhere to be found. You were in the comfort of your cozy recording studio, doing this whole ‘right to be right’ thing and saying you’re a principled constitutional conservate. Well guess what, Ben. Principled, constitutional conservatism wouldn’t have meant a damn thing – it would have breathed its last breaths had Hillary Clinton gotten elected.”

“Why is it that Ben Shapiro gets a pass for his devout Never Trumper-ism?” Logis asked. “See the thing about Ben is that he’s a smart guy. But here’s the thing about ‘smarts’ in politics. It sounds good in theory, but the cleanliness of theory is really no match for the mess of reality. Ben’s conservatism is rock solid. He’s pro-life, he’s staunch for free enterprise, and he’s all about state’s rights. He declared his Never Trumperism because he wants to remain neutral.”

Logis argues that in reality, being a Never Trumper equals being a Democrat. His reasoning is that there is no such thing as true neutrality in a free society.

“Everybody is on a side, whether they like it or not, whether they realize it or not, and whether they know it or not,” Logis said. “I want you to know, Ben, it’s not personal. It’s strictly business.”

Logis is right. With Shapiro, it is strictly business. Shapiro’s anti-Trump sentiment makes financial sense. His site, Daily Wire is owned by fracking billionaires Dan and Farris Wilks, who have been Ted Cruz supporters since 2015. The brothers donated $15 million to a pro-Cruz super PAC. Never Trumpism has been a death sentence for media outlets like RedState, who laid off a massive amount of staff last week. But with billions behind an operation like Daily Wire, there will be no shortage of cash to support their poisonous anti-Trump babble. At one point, Daily Wire was in talks to acquire Never Trumper Glenn Beck’s site, The Blaze. Shapiro pitches his Never Trump attitude as holding to “conservative principles.” That may be his motivation, money talks in politics as it does in every other industry.

In any case, Logis elucidated the frustrations that many Trump supporters have with the old guard, traditional “conservatives.” They are simply not willing to fight – to sling mud in order to win. In their view, it’s a compromise of their precious principles. It’s precisely the reason why conservatism has failed to conserve anything in the last 50 years. Politics is a contact sport, and those who are unwilling to fight will be run over.