Frozen’s Queen Elsa Is a Dangerous Autocrat
Disney’s Animated Franchise Sends Children an Anti-Democratic Message
So far, our republic has survived the Civil War, the Great Depression, two world wars, and even the 2016 election. But can it survive the new sequel to the mega-hit animated film, Frozen?
I doubt it.
While this now-concluding decade has seen autocrats rise and democracy decline around the globe, no unelected ruler of the 2010s has set as seductive an example of unaccountable authoritarianism as Queen Elsa, the monarch at the center of the Frozen franchise.
For all its lovely images and irresistible songs, Frozen celebrates the illogic of monarchs …
