Rise of the high-status bully: PBS’s America’s Great Divide: From Obama to Trump GlobeArts
PBS's Frontline examines the discord in American politics through the Obama and Trump eras in an upcoming two-part, four-hour documentary.Such is the rapidity of current events that a stable perspective seems always out of reach. Ten days or so into 2020 and there is tumult here, there and everywhere.
It presents two overlapping narratives. One tracks how Barack Obama’s promise of unity collapsed; the second inspects how Donald Trump’s campaign thrived on and manipulated the country’s divisions. What Obama couldn’t actually do was deliver unity. A vital theme of this doc is the appalling economic mess of 2008 that Obama inherited from Day 1 and how his handling of it ignited the disunity that Trump would recognize and exploit. A rueful Timothy Geithner, Obama’s Secretary of the Treasury from 2009 to 2013, is interviewed now. He says, “We’d thrown trillions of dollars at it, and it was a existential crisis.
It’s 40 minutes in before Trump appears, first like the ghost in Hamlet and then a cunning disruptor moving astutely from the sidelines to the field of battle. There is lengthy commentary from Megyn Kelly – her most substantial interview in years – in which she explains how her tough questioning of Trump made her deeply hated. Fox News abandoned her, and Steve Bannon appears in the program to confirm with glee how he and Breitbart News arranged for her to be “culled” from Fox and “hammered.
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