American Chaos
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In the months leading up to the 2016 presidential election, America seemed more divided than ever – along party lines, between candidates, and about issues from immigration to gun control. It was an ideological and cultural divide that director Jim Stern, a self-proclaimed political junkie, decided to investigate. And so he set out to the red states to spend time with Donald Trump supporters, to try and understand what they saw in their candidate. What did the man represent that appealed to them so strongly that it could outweigh all the troubling things Trump had said and done? And how did this once impossible candidate become so inevitable?
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It was a prescient plan. Mr. Stern, a longtime Democrat, vowed to listen closely, and he seems to have kept his word. Though he doesn’t mask his expressions — usually astounded, though never mocking — he’s a genial interviewer, empathic, he says, even if he can’t be sympathetic.
Stern's melancholy on election night in 2016 is genuinely affecting, but despite some incisive footage en route to the depressing conclusion, the film ultimately leaves us feeling that the director has become a little too close to his subjects to probe as deeply as our national chaos requires
It doesn’t take a hectoring Michael Moore or patronizing Dinesh D’Souza to properly account for “what happened” and “who these people are, and why” they supported Donald Trump. It turns out Trump supporters, “in their own words,” is the most damning portrait of them imaginable.