This is a good piece, and speaks to the broader cultural trend of Americans not just missing the point of all sorts of cultural touchstones, but deciding with absolute certainty that the opposite of the point is the point and being furious with anyone who corrects them.
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Adam Serwer
Wrote about what’s behind conservatives watching movies and shows warning about the dangers of fascism and somehow coming away thinking the fascists are the good guys, and they should follow their example www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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Breaking Bad and the like are popular because the protagonists are high-agency badasses. Ostensibly the message is "... and he's bad" but c'mon.
But even in the comics, Rorschach, who is not supposed to be sympathetic, dies uncompromisingly, the only one not complicit in mass murder.
It's actually my go-to example of "the author is dead" because of how discordant the two are
I'd have to find the specific interviews, but in general he has pretty liberal politics, and he explicitly stated that he thought the ending was unambiguous (Angela gets the power), and he is generally pro-cop.