Oscar-winning filmmaker Adam McKay is once again taking aim at Democrats — this time accusing liberal voters of blindly defending a party he says has failed its own supporters.
According to the New York Post, during a recent appearance on the “Urgent Futures” podcast, the director behind hit comedies like “Anchorman,” “Talladega Nights” and “Step Brothers” unloaded on what he described as “white liberals” who continue backing the Democratic Party despite repeated disappointments.
“It is incredible to watch people this far down the road still say you gotta stand behind the Democrat Party,” McKay said during the interview.
“The same party that wouldn’t convict Trump of a crime after he told a crowd, ‘Go to the Capitol,’” he continued. “The same party where the previous presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton, literally funded Trump’s campaign.”
McKay, who won an Academy Award for writing “The Big Short,” argued that Democrats rely heavily on what he called “manipulative marketing” to keep voters loyal.
“We are being hit with the high-grade marketing, and no group is worse than white liberals. I mean, they are the worst,” he said.
The filmmaker claimed wealthy liberal voters have become detached from the problems facing average Americans.
“I’ve tried to talk to them about climate; they are so smug and captured,” McKay said. “And it boils down to privilege. I mean, when you talk to white moneyed liberals, they’re getting a lot from this broken system.”
McKay has increasingly distanced himself from the Democratic Party in recent years.
After President Donald Trump’s victory in the 2024 election, the director announced he was leaving the party altogether and considering alternative political movements.
“It is time to abandon the Dem Party,” McKay wrote in a since-deleted post on X. “I’m registering Green Party or Working Families. But am open to ideas.”
The filmmaker has also sharply criticized former President Joe Biden and Democratic leadership over what he described as efforts to hide concerns about Biden’s cognitive condition during the 2024 campaign.
“Who would have guessed lying about Biden’s cognitive health for 2 yrs, refusing to do an open convention for a new nominee, never mentioning public healthcare & embracing fracking, the Cheneys & a yr long slaughter of children in Gaza wouldn’t be a winning strategy?” McKay wrote on X.
McKay previously backed Sen. Bernie Sanders during the Democratic presidential primaries in both 2016 and 2020.
In 2019, he also joined the Democratic Socialists of America.
The director has increasingly focused his work on political and economic themes, rather than on Hollywood comedies.
Most recently, McKay produced the documentary “You Need This,” which centers on the history of capitalism in the United States.
According to the documentary, capitalism is described as “the worst thing to ever happen to our planet.”
