The director supported Bernie Sanders in 2016, voted for Gary Johnson, and his general disdain for governmental regulation as well as the corrosive powers of wealth suggest the markings of a center-left Libertarian (not unlike the “South Park” guys).

Let’s be clear: Lynch never pulled a Kayne. “No one is able to counter this guy in an intelligent way.” (He later said the comments had been taken out of context, and criticized the president.) Lynch fans declared the headlines clickbait, but they’re verbatim: “He could go down as one of the greatest presidents in history because he has disrupted the thing so much,” Lynch said. His best movies are a mishmash of Americana and its nightmarish abstractions, impermeable dreams given cogent form.Īll of that means the hysteria around his supposed positive claims about Donald Trump says less about Lynch’s political philosophy than the absence of one. Lynch’s art - his movies, music, and especially his painting - speaks with far more clarity than anything he has ever said in public, and adheres to its own internal reasoning. He dances around any pressure to interpret his work, and typically reverts to odd, nonspecific pronouncements about the nature of the world and his vocation in a cheery, unassuming tone that often seems at odds with his dark, enigmatic storytelling. David Lynch is a brilliant artist who has never been great with words.

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