As much as I enjoy and am learning from Rachel Maddow's Ultra Season 2, which explores rampant antisemitism/Nazism in 1940s & 1950s US politics (up to and including the Chicago Tribune, WaPo, NYT, etc giving credulous coverage to a Nazi plot at Nuremberg to turn the blame on Jewish-US soldiers)...
There's something about the narrative format that makes the whole thing feel like a cosy whodunnit. But it's *not* just a "good story". It's a reminder that we've been fighting the far right forever.
@MLClark My interpretation of it was that she isn't sensationalizing it, which could easily be brushed aside as partisan hype. Instead, calmly presenting it as fact and proof, we've been here before and swept it under the rug. I think some of it is carefully phrased to create similarities to current events in our heads.
@Graci
No, she's definitely not sensationalizing it! The cosy nature of the storytelling sometimes has an "isn't this neat" feel to it, though, that can yield complacency.
I'm hoping it's only a mid-series vibe, though, and that the series ends with a truly thoughtful and forward-looking closing remark based on all the damning history we've just been through. We shall see!
(And if hasn't been said enough, fuck McCarthy and everyone who road into power with him. What a horrible human being.)