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Tom Hanks’s ‘Saturday Night Live’ Depiction of a Trump Supporter Reflects Liberals’ Contempt for the President’s Voters

Yet the venom only further marginalizes the left.

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Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson attend 'SNL50: The Anniversary Special' on February 16, 2025 at New York City. Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images
VICTOR DAVIS HANSON
VICTOR DAVIS HANSON

Three recent but completely unrelated events illustrate the deranged hatred of President Trump and his supporters extending now even into a second decade. And yet the venom only further marginalizes the left.

In its too-long 50th anniversary spectacle, “Saturday Night Live” offered a skit in which marquee actor Tom Hanks did an impression of what the left thinks is a supposedly Neanderthal Trump supporter.

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VICTOR DAVIS HANSON
VICTOR DAVIS HANSON

Mr. Hanson is a distinguished fellow of the Center for American Greatness. He is a classicist and historian at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and the author of 'The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won,' from Basic Books.

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