Captain America will compromise you politically.
Just as Captain America confronted the thugs and “just sought to do the right thing,” Chris Evans’s political tweets are evidence that the actor, the MCU’s titular superhero, is so determined to fight for his beliefs. And with its new online political page A starting point, Captain America’s star hopes to empower the electorate to interact with its elected officials in a more meaningful way.
In a July 14 tweet that delivered the launch of the site, Evans said, “Just a friendly reminder that a starting point, the civil engagement assignment I’ve been executing for a few years, is presented today. If you have the opportunity, we hope you can create a little more connectivity between elected officials and their constituents, [and] perhaps demystify some issues that others might find daunting. The actor added: “A committed electorate will create a government [that] more must reflect who we are and what we need.’
Evans has been committed to political engagement for years and has never hesitated as a percentage of his social media perspectives. However, given the polarizing nature of politics, this carries a threat of alienation by some fanatics. Still, it’s a gamble Evans has been willing to take for a long time.
“I couldn’t look in the mirror if I felt something strong and didn’t talk,” Evans told Esquire in 2017. “I think that’s the way to talk. We are allowed to disagree. If I provide my case and other people do I don’t need to go to watch my movies accordingly, I agree with that.”
Echoing those sentiments in a November 2019 interview with Yahoo Entertainment, Evans admitted that expressing his political perspectives as a celebrity can nevertheless become “delicate.” “We live in an industry that is primarily about selling price tickets and you perceive that a later effect can affect that,” he added. “But infrequently things matter too much.”
Although Evans is a vocal critic of Donald Trump and supported Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election, he said being frank does not deny his ability to hear divergent views. Here are some of his most productive political tweets he’s shared over the years to celebrate the launch of A Starting Point.
In October 2019, Evans suggested “to all who remain out of politics” to “take intellectual note of where they will draw the line and consider it obligatory to get involved.” Your point: they would possibly locate that this has already happened without them noticing.
After Kanye West tweeted a photo of himself dressed in a “Make America Great Again” hat, which the rapper described as depicting “the proper American total again,” the actor criticized him for his suggestion that the United States repeal the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery in 1789.
In response to a Washington Post opinion piece in June 2018, “A Torch to Tinder”: Stoking Racial Tensions is one of Trump’s presidencies, “Evans denounced the president’s alleged efforts to dehumanize immigrants.”
In July 2019, Evans denounced Tomi Lahren’s “lack of sympathy, respect and general conscience” for those who “fled from hell” in foreign countries.
Evans responded to one of Trump’s diatribes in the “fake news media” in October 2018.
Referring to Trump’s “covfefe” tweet in 2017, Evans tagged his brother Scott, his own comic twist on Cool Hand Luke’s quote: “What we have here is the lack of communication.”
Evans tweeted that we had “touched the basis of human decency,” comparing Trump to a playground thug after the president mocked a protester’s weight and encouraged him to start exercising.
Once again, he called Trump when he talked about climate and climate while talking about global warming.
After political commentator Brit Hume defended Trump’s lack of “knowledge of 19th-century American history,” Evans would if the same admission from any other U.S. president would also be standardized.
The actor called the president’s tweet in July 2019 to tell “progressive Democrats in Congress” to “return” to “hateful and racist” countries.
When former FBI Director James Comey testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee in June 2017, Evans gave his answers in real time. He even looked for Comey’s “Lordy, I hope there’s stripes” line on a T-shirt.
He wrote that seeing Trump’s notorious presser in 2017 after the violent white supremacy rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, “like seeing an exercise accident.”
Captain America delivered a message of hope on July 4, 2019.
Evans tweeted that David Brooks’ 2017 New York Times editorial on the “child-led” world contained “too many very good phrases” to call one.
He said in September 2019 that Trump’s presidency “will be immortalized as a circus,” without the businessman’s name.
Obviously, when it comes to sharing his political views, Evans can simply “do this all day.”
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