An existential threat to American Democracy.”Īs recently as last week (and I don’t doubt Trump will extend his love affair with this particular pile of horse manure into next week, next month and next year) Trump still claimed to have won the 2020 election. “It was the lie that sparked an insurrection. Frankly we did win this election…” until the narrator clarifies what you really already know, thus: We were getting ready to win this election. “This is an embarrassment to our country. The film, directed by Michael Kirk, opens with footage of a long string of losing presidential candidates since the dawn of the TV age graciously conceding and congratulating their opponents, until it comes to Trump declaring of the election he had just lost that: If possible, we should all save a copy and rerun it in future presidential election years to make sure we remember what happened in 2020 and take measures to prevent any recurrence of this epic shit-show from threatening our little experiment in democratic self-governance again. The documentary is two hours long, and a lot of it is stuff you already know, although there’s likely to be some facts or ideas in there that will be new to you.īut the film is as honest and accurate and chilling as you can imagine. democracy in the aftermath of Joe Biden’s SOLID victory over Trump in the 2020 presidential election and Trump’s efforts to overturn it (which are still going on – he’s recently called for the election to be rerun – ? – but going nowhere). It’s especially about his attempted despoliation of U.S. It’s titled “Lies, Politics and Democracy.”Īs you may have guessed from the title, it’s about Donald Trump, the biggest liar in recent (and perhaps in all of ) U.S. The newest documentary by the great PBS “Frontline” outfit premieres Tuesday night at 9 p.m.
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