Jake and Elwood are stuck in traffic.
An “American Socialist White People’s Party” demonstration occupies a bridge. The Chicago Police Department holds back enraged counterprotesters. Jake asks a cop what’s going on.
Cop: Ah, those bums won their court case, so they’re marchin’ today.
Jake: What bums?
Cop: The fuckin’ Nazi Party.
Elwood (annoyed): Illinois Nazis.
Jake: I hate Illinois Nazis.
Elwood puts the Bluesmobile in gear, motors through the miraculously parting crowd, and the Nazis end up in Chicago’s Jackson Park Lagoon.
As white-supremacist ideologues came out from under their rocks to ride the post-election Trump wave, shouting “Hail victory” and “Hail Trump” to miniscule crowds magnified by social media’s reach and the mainstream media’s ineptitude, that particular scene from the 1980 movie The Blues Brothers began popping up on Facebook and Twitter feeds. This film—nearly 40 years old—was mocking the latest manifestation of Nazism in America.
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