{"id":2684629,"date":"2026-10-15T09:34:03","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T13:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/utm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaignmeet-the-supervillains-ruining-america\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T09:43:45","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T13:43:45","slug":"utm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaignmeet-the-supervillains-ruining-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/utm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaignmeet-the-supervillains-ruining-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet The &#8216;Supervillains&#8217; Ruining America"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">10<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Futm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaignmeet-the-supervillains-ruining-america%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2684629&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>the article discusses how modern entertainment and cultural narratives have shifted towards moral relativism, often portraying good and evil as ambiguous or perspective-dependent, which undermines clear moral standards. It criticizes the trend of deconstructing heroes and villainizing moral actors, arguing this leads to incoherent stories and a confusing moral landscape, both in media and politics. The author highlights Peachy Keenan&#8217;s book, *Supervillains: Architects of America\u2019s Decline*, which catalogs and critiques today\u2019s various societal villains across sectors such as health, politics, culture, and academia. Keenan outlines figures like corrupt <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dems-lost-all-credibility-on-social-distancing-after-biden-celebrations\/\" title=\"Dems Lost All Credibility On Social Distancing After Biden Celebrations\">public health officials<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >cultural activists pushing harmful ideologies<\/a>, and elite families fueling destruction through divorce and philanthropy. She also discusses the influence of woke cultural elites, such as the &#8220;Illiterati&#8221; and &#8220;Hollywood Wreckers,&#8221; who have degraded literature and entertainment in pursuit of ideological agendas. The article emphasizes recognizing and confronting these villains directly, advocating for truth-telling and moral clarity, especially in light of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/johnson-not-seeking-3rd-term-in-2022-is-probably-my-preference\/\" title=\"Johnson: Not seeking 3rd term in 2022 is probably my preference\">upcoming midterm elections<\/a>.it portrays a call to identify clear villains in our society and to stand against their destructive influence, suggesting that moral clarity is essential to resisting the decline fostered by these supervillains.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>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\u2019s perspective or deliberately making the hero flawed to the point of becoming unlikeable.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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 \u2014 except Donald Trump, of course \u2014 they are simply acting according to their beliefs or \u201ctheir truth.\u201d 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.<\/p>\n<p>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 \u2014 even supervillains \u2014 to be clear on who means to destroy the country and make life miserable for everyone? And wouldn\u2019t this be good to know before voting in the midterm elections this coming November?<\/p>\n<h2>Today\u2019s Worst People<\/h2>\n<p>It most certainly would, which is why writer Peachy Keenan has written <em>Supervillains: Architects of America\u2019s Decline<\/em>. With her usual wit, Keenan catalogues today\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>As such, she begins with the public health officials, the oxymoronically labeled \u201cSick Doctors\u201d who swore up and down that the Covid virus came from a Chinese wet market and that the vaccine was safe and necessary. Before they were doing this, though, they were leveraging their unquestioned medical authority to push transgender interventions on vulnerable minors. In retrospect, it should not have been a surprise to see these unaccountable \u201cmedical professionals\u201d with no discernible conscience capitalize on a serious health crisis for nefarious purposes.<\/p>\n<p>This dynamic of using their elite status to exploit crises or fabricate them altogether is repeated endlessly with the other supervillains. There are the \u201cGreat Replacers\u201d who flood the country with immigrants and demonize critics as bigots; the \u201cFemale Liberation Theologists\u201d who promote toxic feminism, abortion, sexual promiscuity, and transgenderism, all for the purpose of ruining men and making women as miserable as themselves; the proud members of the \u201cAmerican Injustice System\u201d who do their utmost to keep criminals on the streets, punish do-gooders, meddle in elections, and shake down organizations that aren\u2019t sufficiently woke; and the \u201cDEI Hards\u201d who have drained away all competency and fairness from every institution, elevating race hustlers and career criminals while silencing and suing conservatives who call this out.<\/p>\n<p>Not surprisingly, Keenan particularly shines in her criticism of today\u2019s cultural supervillains \u201cexecuting a hostile takeover of our cultural output\u201d since this is the world she comes from. The first of these are the \u201cIlliterati,\u201d the ultra-woke leftists who rule the literary world with a rainbow-colored iron fist. Keenan is hilariously candid about what has become of today\u2019s literature because of these people:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A tiresome array of stale, postmodern tropes are still going strong in the publishing industry: gender confusion, trans kids, abortion memoirs, threesome memoirs, divorce memoirs, the cozy story your abuela told you before she handed you over to human traffickers, the evils of slavery, \u201cgrowing up brown in a racist world,\u201d \u201cgrowing up female in a misogynist country,\u201d the plight of the immigrants and the refugee, the evils of white men, the struggle of angst ridden teenage asexual werewolves: it\u2019s all there between the covers.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Naturally, she follows this up with a plethora of receipts to prove that this is intentional and just as bad as it sounds. Although the Illiterati turned away the majority of potential readers from contemporary literature, they were a major influence on the group responsible for wokeifying popular entertainment: the \u201cHollywood Wreckers.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>These are the genius producers and filmmakers who destroyed popular franchises in the name of female empowerment and diversity \u2014 Star Wars, Marvel, The Lord of the Rings, Disney Princess movies, and now The Chronicles of Narnia. They also ruined popular books adapted to film like <em>Little Women<\/em>, <em>A Song of Ice and Fire<\/em>, and<em> The Three-Body Problem<\/em>. It\u2019s clear that these people are the ones most responsible for the current miserable state of Hollywood.<\/p>\n<p>My favorite chapter in the book concerns the crazy-rich ex-wives and widows of the world\u2019s richest men. As Keenan rightly notes, \u201cThe former wives of billionaires may make up the tiniest demographic of supervillains, but together they are doing more damage than all the male supervillains combined.\u201d She goes on to discuss the odd phenomenon of divorcees Melinda Gates, MacKenzie Scott Bezos, and widow Laurene Powell Jobs shoveling billions of dollars to leftist organizations devoted to destroying the West.<\/p>\n<p>My other favorite chapter, \u201cBiohackers,\u201d describes a group of mad scientists who could stand to have a little more attention. These are the eugenicists at Orchid, trying to \u201chave a \u2018cure\u2019 for genetic abnormalities and disease\u201d by killing live embryos; the \u201c\u2018bodyoid\u2019 researchers\u201d who manufacture \u201ccloned humans, grown in artificial wombs, genetically modified to lack brain stems, and kept alive for their owner\u2019s organ needs\u201d; and the \u201cBaby Merchants\u201d who run surrogacy clinics where babies are essentially manufactured as sellable merchandise to homosexual couples. Once again, Keenan\u2019s incisive honesty about these individuals helps bring out the unappreciated truth that what they are doing is almost unfathomably evil.<\/p>\n<p>Keenan also discusses the \u201cMedia Malefactors\u201d who are the demagogues and shills who use their platforms to inform their sheep-like audiences about politics, the \u201cFat Cats\u201d who use their immense capital to influence society and bankroll underhanded political projects, and the laughably incompetent leaders and representatives of \u201cMotel California.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Before moving into her conclusion, Keenan devotes two brief chapters to the \u201cSupervillain Dynasties\u201d and \u201cLesser Villains,\u201d which respectively consist of elite families with legacies of failure and corruption and non-elites who nevertheless partake in destructive and disreputable behavior. For readers interested in talking sense to these lesser villains, many of whom they probably encounter daily, Keenan provides a helpful lexicon to dispel some of the confusion that tends to arise in these conversations.<\/p>\n<h2>Laughing at Evil<\/h2>\n<p>Finally, the book ends with some suggestions on how to deal with this large cast of supervillains. This mainly consists of seeing past their propaganda, bravely speaking the truth, and following the pro-family, just-be-normal advice of her book <em>Domestic Extremist<\/em>. Rather than seeking to understand, accommodate, and even imitate these elites, people should recognize such types as the supervillains they are and thwart them as much as possible. After all, \u201cthey\u2019re essential to the timeline. To the story. \u2026 You can\u2019t have a great hero unless he\u2019s got a great bad guy to fight. It is our fate, I\u2019m afraid, to always be locked in a war with people who think they\u2019re the good guys and just exterminate the other side and they\u2019ll reach their version of the Promised Land. Tale as old as time!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Overall, Keenan is funny, concise, and surprisingly profound (see the quote above) in her analysis. She wisely avoids simply dishing out red meat to a conservative audience or making glib equivocations between both sides in the vain attempt to seek out common ground. Yes, this conflict largely takes place beyond the right-left political and cultural spectrum, and it stems from certain fallenness in human nature, but at the moment, the worst offenses are overwhelmingly coming from the leftist worldview. While all human beings have the capacity to become villains, and some even have the means to become supervillains, it is undeniable that leftism is facilitating and encouraging the bulk of today\u2019s evils.<\/p>\n<p>With the midterms coming up, American voters would do well to read <em>Supervillains<\/em> and remind themselves of how far we have come as a society and how far we have to go. Sometimes, life isn\u2019t so morally gray and indeterminate. Sometimes, the evil is so apparent that one can\u2019t help but laugh at it like Peachy Keenan does. And sometimes, there comes a moment when one hears the call to heroism, dispenses with the usual misgivings, and proceeds to save his world from the villains destroying his country.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Auguste Meyrat is an English teacher and freelance writer in the Dallas area. He is the founding editor of <a href=\"https:\/\/everymancommentary.substack.com\/\">The Everyman<\/a>, a senior contributor to The Federalist, and has written for essays for The American Mind, The Stream, Religion and Liberty, The Blaze, and elsewhere. He is also the host of &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/everyman-commentary\/id1826292273\">The Everyman Commentary Podcast<\/a>.&#8221; Follow him on <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/EverymanComm\">X<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Woke culture blurs good and evil, reimagining heroes and villains<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":551,"featured_media":2684630,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Copy-of-Copy-of-Copy-of-Copy-of-Copy-of-Copy-of-Copy-of-Copy-of-Copy-of-Copy-of-Book-Cover-Featured-Image.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[5374,50403,5894,87269],"class_list":["post-2684629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-america","tag-crime-2","tag-politics","tag-supervillains"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Copy-of-Copy-of-Copy-of-Copy-of-Copy-of-Copy-of-Copy-of-Copy-of-Copy-of-Copy-of-Book-Cover-Featured-Image.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2684629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/551"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2684629"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2684629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2684633,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2684629\/revisions\/2684633"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2684630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2684629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2684629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2684629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}