There is no mistaking the left-wing themes of the Disney+ Star Wars series Andor. Set five years before the movie Rogue One, Andor shows the Empire strip mining planets, exploiting workers, arresting innocent people, and massacring civilians. 

At a time when the Democratic Party is claiming that the Trump administration is arresting U.S. citizens and whisking them off to torture facilities overseas, it is impossible not to see the show as a critique of the authoritarian impulses of the current president.