Artists who appear to be conservative/right-wing at heart, yet are mostly lauded by liberals/leftists.

Frank Miller used to be like this, but I'm pretty sure most of his leftist fans have abandoned him by now.

That reminds me - I'd like to reread those Martha Washington books again at some point. What was the deal with those?

Billy Corgan?

the answer to this is miranda lambert

Mort Walker!

FP'd you for Dik Browne erasure

Jorge Luis Borges is one that immediately comes to mind, though his politics mostly aren't evident in his writing. I can't imagine most conservatives have read him, let alone heard of him.

The above stuff about Lynch from 2006 is very interesting in the light of 2020, particularly the stuff equating "family values" with conservatism. Though cons always paid lip-service to such values, I can think of few things more corrosive to family values than capitalism.

shows how the perception right and left has changed so significantly the last 10 years ( also to the point where I'm wondering whether Bill Hicks isn't creeping closer to a valid answer here)

Bill Hicks would have been a Berniebro.

Norm Macdonald seems to be the most obvious answer to this thread right now

The above stuff about Lynch from 2006 is very interesting in the light of 2020, particularly the stuff equating "family values" with conservatism. Though cons always paid lip-service to such values, I can think of few things more corrosive to family values than capitalism.

Lynch is so into families that he's had four of them

(and started at least two of those by cheating on then ghosting a previous partner or wife aiui)

Damn, I didn't know that. X reference with the "separating the art from the artist" thread.

Bill Hicks would have been a Berniebro.

I'd suggest H.L. Mencken, even though his politics were all over the place by today's definitions. "At heart" he seems conservative.

and unless I’m misremembering p gd racist

you're not misremembering

Nah he’d be a corona truther.

I don't know how the guy who talked like this gets lumped into the reactionary bin -" Take all that money we spend on weapons and defenses each year and instead spend it feeding and clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would pay for many times over, not one human being excluded, and we could explore space, together, both inner and outer, forever, in peace."