by Bruce E. Levine, Truthout
October 13, 2018
https://truthout.org/articles/moores-fahrenheit-11-9-shows-democrats-complicity-in-electing-trump/
(Caption: US President Donald Trump speaks with former President Barack Obama as former Vice President Joe Biden and New York Sen. Chuck Schumer look on during his inauguration ceremonies at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on January 20, 2017.)
Unlike the standard Michael Moore film that is replete with cheap shots and lurid tangents aimed at hooking and pleasing his choir, Moore cuts back on candy for his Trump-hating fans in Fahrenheit 11/9 and instead provides them with much-needed political truths.
The substance of Fahrenheit 11/9 challenges his fans to go beyond their easy contempt for the obnoxious Trump. Moore pushes his audience to consider how the corporatist blue team — an authoritarian Democratic National Party, a clueless self-serving Hillary Clinton, a slickly betraying Barack Obama and an ultimately pathetic Bernie Sanders — helped elect Trump to the presidency. Moore exposes the Democratic Party’s complicity in Trump’s victory and in US social and economic injustice. Sadly, it appears that Fahrenheit 11/9 will have a smaller audience than previous Moore films.