In July 2025, Dan Fleuette granted The Gateway Pundit an unique interview on the fashionable Butterworth’s restaurant on Capitol Hill to debate his uncommon and timeless portrait ebook, Rebels, Rogues, and Outlaws: A Pictorial Historical past of WarRoom. Fleuette graciously gifted The Gateway Pundit a replica of his ebook.
After inspecting all 464 pages of Fleuette’s technically flawless photographic compositions, he dove right into a philosophical dialogue on the rightward motion of as we speak’s political pendulum.
Fleuette known as for a whole and pressing renewal of our cultural crucial with a purpose to rescue American artwork.
“When it comes to greater concepts about artwork on the best, that is one thing I’m deeply keen about,” Dan Fleuette informed The Gateway Pundit. “The gatekeepers of the artwork world–in artwork galleries, Hollywood, the music business, and in publishing–all fully ostracize artists on the best.”
“And so, you are gonna name your self an artist, after which gatekeep the artwork world from anybody who doesn’t suppose such as you? Come on. The artwork you see these days isn’t simply censored. It’s bland, boring, and tiresome. You know the way they speak about fatigue?” Fleuette stated. “Effectively, I’ve acquired artwork fatigue. I simply can’t stand it anymore.”
Pouring positive tea from a big, steaming pot of his favourite English Breakfast, Fleuette doctored it by mixing no less than ten complete sugar cubes and as a lot milk as doable into the pot.
“I tune all of it out, as a result of there isn’t any artwork anymore,” Fleuette stated. “The artwork neighborhood these days is totally damaged. It’s spoiled rotten.”
“Simply have a look at any motion that comes out of Hollywood. It’s all ideological–for photographers, gallery homeowners, musicians, performing artists, and writers–it is all for nothing, as a result of you’ll be able to now not be an particular person. You need to be one of many mob, which is the exact opposite of an artist.”
“So for me, no self-respecting artist can name themselves a part of the left. When you’re of the left, you’ll be able to’t truly be an artist, since you’re not allowed to say something new, or wealthy, or true to your self, or true to the larger world. You’re caught in an ideological straightjacket.”
“So my portrait ebook is my response to that pathetic thought,” Fleuette stated.
Fleuette recognized the brand new American left as probably the most extreme power in deadening each the souls of artists, and the vitality of the humanities in current a long time. Nonetheless, Fleuette strongly holds that the humanities, by definition, should transcend politics. For that motive, he has at all times regarded Rebels, Rogues, and Outlaws as an train in artwork for artwork’s sake.
“The purpose of my ebook isn’t that my topics are MAGA, or that they maintain any specific standpoint. The very fact is, each one among them is a insurgent in their very own proper. That spirit runs via my ebook: the battle, the defiance, the willingness to face each consequence and nonetheless say, ‘You realize what? Fuck you. I’m doing it anyway.’”
“My ebook is my very own response to that braveness. I wish to rejoice that spirit, that bravery,” Fleuette stated.
“For me, it is not about making so-called right-wing artwork. It is nearly making good artwork.”
“These days, you’ll be able to’t actually divorce artwork from politics. All artwork is inherently political as of late, since you’ll be judged in your adherence to the orthodoxy, or not,” Fleuette stated.
“You’ll be able to’t merely take away your self out of your opinions, your ideology, or the best way you have a look at the world. As an artist, your job is to convey the world as you see it. And being true to your self is crucial factor.”
“It is not about toeing the road or saying the ‘proper’ factor. That’s bullshit.”
“The good artists which have provoked change, or a brand new method of trying on the world, have at all times been outsiders firstly. And so they’ve been true to themselves. Artists have historically been anti-establishment. Not all nice artists had been profitable of their lifetimes, however looking back, we are able to see how they modified artwork, or modified conversations about artwork, about society, about life.”
“I’m not daring sufficient to suppose my ebook will spark that form of dialog, however that is my contribution to that spirit of being a person,” Fleuette stated.
In June, 2025, The Gateway Pundit reported {that a} new research within the British Journal of Social Psychology conclusively demonstrated that the political proper “diverges extensively” in thought, whereas the political left “coalesces round a really slim set of opinion.”
The British Journal of Social Psychology printed 5 heatmap charts objectively confirming, based mostly on the community modeling knowledge of surveyed topics, that left-wing ideology stays closely flatlined, despite all current change within the political enviornment.
“The left have such a perverted method of understanding the best. Hell, my very own brother received’t speak to me anymore as a result of Trump is within the White Home. It is not sensible,” Fleuette stated.
“Beginning in about 2012, I seen a hesitancy amongst some individuals we labored with over time to interact. Now, lots of them are brazenly hostile. I’ve even had craftsmen stroll off set in the midst of a shoot as a result of they couldn’t deal with who they’re working with. It’s astounding.”
“When you’re not pushing a specific agenda, you’ll not get funding. So who’re we kidding right here? The issue is when gatekeepers implement a sure greater political ideology. Once they subvert and oppress artists, individuals received’t stand for it.”
“So now could be the time for a shift within the artwork world. Persons are sick of the rubbish literature and bullshit Hollywood motion pictures. E-book gross sales are down. Film gross sales are down. Nobody can stand watching these items anymore. It is all trash. And individuals are tuning out in droves.”
“However it doesn’t must be that method. The business is facilitating its personal demise by churning out rubbish. And lots of people can’t even absolutely articulate why they’re achieved with it. They simply know it’s bullshit. So that they tune out. They stroll away. They roll their eyes and say, ‘I’m not watching this silly shit.’”
“And in the long run, you’ll be able to solely cancel so many individuals earlier than there isn’t any one left. At some point, a vital mass of individuals will say, ‘Fuck you. I’m doing my very own factor,” Fleuette stated.
Regarding his private pursuits, Fleuette is now actively growing one other ebook. Moreover, Fleuette is collaborating with quite a few well-known artists, at house and overseas.
“I’m writing one other ebook. It is not precisely a portrait ebook, however it can have portrait components. It is a collection of quick tales–some made up, and others impressed by actual occasions. It’s a fantastical memoir with pictures, pictures, and textual content–however very linear,” Fleuette stated.
“And luckily, quite a lot of artists on the best at the moment are beginning to acquire traction, as they discover as we speak’s setting to be barely much less chilling. Extra individuals are opening as much as the concept artists on the best have expertise and keenness.”
“It’s nice to see, and I wish to be on the forefront of that. I’m actively collaborating with quite a lot of artists, together with Sean Danconia in Palm Seashore, and the notorious Matthew Glamorre–an icon within the UK membership scene.”
“And it received’t finish there. My objective is to assist nice artists acquire recognition, particularly after they run counter to the prevailing dominant tradition.”
“I firmly imagine that President Trump’s elimination of DEI orthodoxy, together with Ambassador Richard Grenell’s management on the Kennedy Middle, will assist usher in a serious cultural change.”
“I can’t wait to see it,” Fleuette stated. “What a time to be alive.”
