I skimmed Breitbart’s memoir for the Frankfurt school stuff 5-6 years ago and it’s interesting to return to it now. It was inconceivable to him there would be a conservative case against consumerism, the suburbs, Disney, etc. He thought you had to be a Marxist to hate that stuff.

He couldn’t or wouldn’t grasp that Adorno et al’s dislike of Southern California was as much an expression of their instinctive cultural conservatism as their Marxist analysis! With post-liberalism, trad tendencies etc gaining ground on the right, this seems weirder today.

What’s also funny is he says you’d have to be a sicko to think Disney is bad, no real American would think that—but also that Hollywood is cultural Marxist propaganda for the “Democrat-Media Complex”, which brings him close to a sort of crude “culture industry” critique himself.