Wednesday, August 3, 2016

Hollywood Reporter: Anti-Hillary Economy Exploding in Merch, Movies and Books - a vast right wing Hillary-hating industry




Hollywood Reporter

Sexist T-shirts — for instance, one featuring caricatures of Hillary Clinton and Monica Lewinsky that reads, "Hillary Sucks, But Not Like Monica" — and offensive bumper stickers are a growth industry, at least for four more months.
"I support Hillary," says a woman peddling anti-Hillary buttons, bumper stickers and T-shirts ("Life's a bitch — don't vote for one") outside the Republican National Convention in mid-July in Cleveland. "But a girl's got to do what a girl's got to do."
What this particular girl — who declined to give her name — is doing is making a killing, and she's not the only one. For the four days of Donald Trump's convention, the streets outside the Quicken Loans Arena were turned into a Marrakech bazaar of Trump-pumping, Hillary-dumping merchandise. There were Trump yard signs, Trump bottled water, Trump breakfast cereal ("They're Great Again," it says on the box), endless racks of bright red "Make America Great Again" baseball caps ...