Should Trump Enablers Be Ostracized? We Asked an Actress on the Hollywood Blacklist

Lee Grant was shut out of work for 12 years—and she cautions against snubbing the president’s loyalists

Aaron Gell
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7 min readJan 19, 2021

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Sidney Poitier comforting a distraught Lee Grant in a scene of In the Heat of the Night
Sidney Poitier and Lee Grant in a scene from ‘In the Heat of the Night’ (1967). Photo: Mondadori Portfolio/Getty

In early November, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez posted a tweet wondering whether anyone was “archiving these Trump sycophants for when they try to…

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Aaron Gell
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Medium editor-at-large, with bylines in the New Yorker, Vanity Fair, the New York Times and numerous other publications. ¶ aarongell.com