Rather than trying to directly critique the politics of fictional characters, it's enough to point out that Frank Capra himself was a highly outspoken anti-FDR Republican and so was Jimmy Stewart It's not that the movie has obviously bad politics, it's that it's a Rorschach blothttps://twitter.com/nberlat/status/1299093335085330433 …
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I like It's A Wonderful Life well enough and I don't think of the characters as Trump voters But it's really obvious to me how a Trump voter could And indeed I'm pretty sure most Trump voters do love this movie and think of themselves as George Bailey and "the libs" as Potter
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I think this is an even stronger argument with Capra's duology of "Mr Deeds Goes to Town" and "Mr Smith Goes to Washington", which are classic movies extolling "small-town values" over corrupt big city elites Which is the whole core narrative of the modern GOP
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It's a blatantly insincere and manipulative narrative, but that's what it is Trumpists *obviously* think of Trump as Mr Deeds and Mr Smith (who were originally intended to be the same character but he couldn't get Gary Cooper back)
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You may think it's an obviously and indeed absurdly misplaced comparison - Donald Trump was born in NY to inherited wealth - but it doesn't matter, the narrative predates him They're just recycling the one they used for Sarah Palin back in 2008
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Which is itself recycled from previous iterations I remember when I was a kid people had the hot take that Ross Perot only happened because people thought he reminded them of Jed Clampett (and the Beverly Hillbillies were just another iteration of Mr Deeds)
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