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

ah, point taken.

Also, doesn't Vincent Gallo claim to be a conservative?

Vincent Gallo to jerk off, sell sperm [but not to darkies]

Just cos he was a Christian doesn't make him right wing. This was an artist who promoted the rights of Native Americans, opposed Vietnam and the Iraq war. Despite being "saved" he never became sanctimonious.

My contribution to the blacklist and I"m surprised it hasn't been said: Bob Dylan

I'm not convinced that Gallo believes any of the racialist nonsense that he says.

so? does that somehow make it better?

Maybe if Gallo had a bigger stage, where anyone but Vice fanboys and Chloe Sevigny gave a damn about his views, it would be a bigger deal. But he is, ultimately, a nobody.

NO FUCKING WAY was Johnny Cash conservative. He basically looked at Xtianity as a force for redemption and was the sole Xtian on the planet that I ever had any respect for.

Even in Curb Your Enthusiasm, there's an episode where he gets a new dog that barks at black people and causes him all manner of embarassment, and makes some remarks that have his status as "friend o' lesbians" retracted, all while wearing a bow tie which causes someone to call him "Tucker Carlson over there". There's also another episode where he's about to start making out with a gorgeous fellow co-star of The Producers but then notices a picture of George Bush on her dresser, asks her if she's a republican (she is), gets disgusted and has to leave.

This would be more interesting going the other way - supposedly right-wing (but not really) artists that get shunned by leftists. The only one I can think of off the top of my head is Lynrd Skynrd.

thumbs up to milo re salvador dali (who vladimir nabokov once called
"the spanish norman rockwell" [though mr. rockwell himself was somewhat left-leaning]).

i stand corrected. marinetti didn't invade fiume, tho'.

others: john ford (or at least certain french lefty film-lovers did). lee ving (alex in nyc to thread!) morrissey.

50 Cent

Are you talking about Johnny Cash? And did you know that Tucker Carlson was once a contributing editor to the right-wing Arkansas Democrat-Gazette?

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."