Conservative actress Gina Carano found rare support among liberals in the mainstream media following her firing from "The Mandalorian" over social media posts and being dropped by her agency UTA. In an essay titled, "Firing Actors for Being Conservative Is Another Hollywood Blacklist," New York magazine columnist Jonathan Chait began by recalling the polarizing period in the entertainment industry when suspected communists were barred from working amid the Red Scare of the 1940s and 1950s.