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REINER: "Well, Jane Fonda has started the Committee for the First Amendment, and this committee is a reboot of the committee that her father was a part of in the 50s — you mentioned McCarthyism — to push back on McCarthyism. So the Hollywood community is very much aware of their First Amendment rights being impinged. We saw what happened to Jimmy Fallon — excuse me, Jimmy Kimmel. We saw what happened to Jimmy Kimmel. And so we’re well aware of what’s happening. We — but our job now as communicators is to start communicating to the rest of the country to let them know what is going to happen to them. The two big things that an autocrat needs, they need control of the media, which is what they’re trying to do, and they need military control of the streets. And that’s the other thing that we’re seeing. So we’re in it right now, and we’re sliding downhill in a very, very fast way, and we have to find a way to stop it. And I believe the way to stop it is to educate people who may not understand what democracy is, they may not know what the impact of losing it is. We have to explain it. Us storytellers have to explain to them what they’re going to wind up with if an autocrat has his way."
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