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Donald Trump addresses a crowd of passionate supporters waving election signs.
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Getting Out the Fear Vote

As Trump improvises at his rallies, his grim imaginings of a mongrelized, crime-ridden country are transformed into unfalsifiable myths.

November 7, 2024
Family stands underneath dark overpass.
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Separated – Telluride Film Review

Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker Errol Morris tells the fictional story of a Guatemalan family to revisit America’s zero tolerance immigration policy, with a focus on the dark, mysterious bureaucratic decisions that led to its implementation.

September 2, 2024
Reporter addresses dark room of anxious employees.
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September 5 – Telluride Film Review

When terrorism disrupts the 1972 Munich Olympics, ABC Sports scrambles to become a news team. Tim Fehlbaum’s film offers a fresh perspective on this enduring tragedy.

August 31, 2024
Supporters of Donald Trump near Fulton County Jail on the day he was booked on state charges for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Sitting outside with signs reading "Georgia knows Trump won" and "Trump caught them all!".
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The Grievance Artist

If Trump has a genius, it is his ability to shape, often out of his own self-made follies and recklessness and crimes, a narrative that relentlessly reaffirms his grim story of an us-versus-them America.

November 2, 2023
Man walks through a large metal gate, following a group of people in Afghanistan.
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Hollywoodgate – Telluride Film Review

After the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, journalist Ibrahim Nash’at embedded within the Taliban’s Air Force, revealing a grim world of fear and oppression.

July 26, 2023
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Reality Rebellion

By doubling down on Trump’s Big Lie that the election was stolen, Republicans are making their base angrier, more radical, and more likely to turn to violence.

June 3, 2021
Crowd of people, many with MAGA hats, carrying American flags and Trump signs
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‘Be Ready to Fight’

The New York Review of Books

Trumpism is driven by cruelty and domination even as its rhetoric claims grievance and victimization. The attack on the Capitol showed that Donald Trump’s army of millions will not just melt away when he leaves office.

January 14, 2021
American flag flying over crowd of people, many wearing MAGA hats
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The Con He Rode In On

Why do people hardly even talk about all the car plants Trump has brought to Michigan?

October 21, 2020

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