‘The Devil’s Triangle’ And the Anti-Communist Film Festival

    “So why hasn’t anyone made a movie out of The Devil’s Triangle?”

    I was in a car with two women I had just met. I was being interviewed on speaker phone by a NewsMax reporter. An hour earlier, I had given a presentation about the Anti-Communist Film Festival to the renowned Wednesday morning meeting heard by conservative icon Grover Norquist.

    To back up a bit, this fall, I am organizing, along with the good folks at the Victims of Communism Foundation, an Anti-Communist Film Festival. A couple of weeks ago, John Fund at National Review wrote about the festival. This led to an invitation from Grover Norquist to address his Wednesday morning meeting, a strategy session held in D.C., where a hundred or more conservatives in media and government lay out what they are working on. The meeting is off the record, so I will only say that Grover’s people are super friendly and welcoming, and my idea for the festival was well received. Afterwards, I was approached by two smart women who work in conservative circles. They offered me a ride back to my car, which was parked at the National Geographic building a few blocks away. 

    One of the women is friendly with a reporter from Newsmax. She called him, then he called me, and as we drove, I did the interview. Like everyone else in conservative circles – if not liberal ones – he was excited about the idea of the film festival.

    He also, of course, had questions for me about Brett Kavanaugh. As I mentioned at the end of my presentation, conservatives know my name in relation to the 2018 American Stasi hit on Brett Kavanaugh. 

    His first question: The Kavanaugh circus in 2018 is a story that is so rich with material; why hasn’t anyone made a film about it?

    My answer was an opportunity to express some of the frustration I’ve felt with the conservative movement. We have gotten very good at complaining about the media, academia, and Hollywood – in fact, too good at complaining. We are not as effective at proactively doing something about it. I wrote a book about the Kavanaugh hit called The Devil’s Triangle, and two other writers and I have adapted it to a film treatment. It’s a psychological thriller with 1980s flashbacks and a flawed protagonist, and the extortionate, criminal left are very much the bad guys. No conservatives, even the billionaires, have the guts to make this film.

    In the past several years, I have written dozens of articles about who was behind the Kavanaugh hit. David Enrich, a reporter at the New York Times who in 2018 wrote some nasty garbage about my high school friends and me, apologized to me for his coverage. My last piece, which appeared in Chronicles and was posted at RealClearPolitics, revealed the role of Reed Hoffman, Sheryl Sandberg, and other elites in the attempt to destroy my high school friend and me. The conservative response? To publish a lazy and poorly researched review of The Devil’s Triangle. Washingtonian begged for a profile of me for six years, then spiked the piece when it turned out that I wasn’t a devil – and indeed, that I have revealed the names of the people who tried to destroy Kavanaugh. I mentioned to the NewsMax reporter that he might make a few phone calls and ask why the profile was killed. He said, “Why do you care about a little podunk magazine like Washingtonian?” Because my profile was killed by bigger people than those at the magazine. Make some calls. Investigate. I never have to prod the left to look into things.

    Last year, I came up with the idea of holding an Anti-Communist Film Festival. From the grassroots, the response was instantaneous and enthusiastic. People from Texas, Nebraska, New England, and even California contacted me asking me when it was happening (October) and where (the Victims of Communism Foundation).) Finally, it began to gain notice in more elite circles. National Review. Grover Norquist. The Washington Times. Trump? As I said at the Wednesday meeting with Norquist, movies are sexy, glamorous, and get into the psyche more than think tanks or position papers. On top of all that, 2026 is the 20th anniversary of The Lives of Others, the Oscar-winning film about the East German Stasi. As more than one friend has said, “Yes – the one that depicts what the left did to you and Kavanaugh.”

    Not exactly. The film that depicts the 2018 hit will be The Devil’s Triangle. That film should be made, just as I should be collecting a salary for being the Director of the Anti-Communist Film Festival. Liberals certainly support those who advance the idea on their side of the aisle. 

    Grover Norquist’s Americans for Tax Reform office is just a few blocks from what was the original 9:30 Club, the legendary 1980s punk and New Wave music stage where I saw bands like R.E.M., the Replacements, and Siouxsie and the Banshees when I was in college during the Regan era. Before my Wednesday address, I stopped by the old entrance just to ask for some good energy. I wanted to be reminded of a time when up-and-coming talent was supported by a community of fans, family, and record companies. It was a model for what the right could do. If we only had the guts and would stop complaining.

    I wrapped things up with the Newsmax reporter, then kind of realized that I was in the backseat of a car with two ladies I had just met, and they had heard the entire interview. I apologized if I had been rude, as well as for some of my salty language, as I talked about some of the low points of the Kavanaugh hit. Without revealing a private conversation, I will only say that the women were compassionate, brilliantly insightful into politics, and overwhelmingly supportive of me and the festival. 

    It was like the old days at the 9:30 Club. The culture is not ready for you, and is not friendly to your pro-freedom, countercultural idea? Too bad. Stop complaining. As the Replacements once put it, “We’re coming out.” 

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