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[on the 'historical' films of 2012] This Oscar season is rife with contenders who bank on the authenticity of their film until it's challenged, and then fall back on the 'Hey, it's only a movie' defense.

Just as Obama admitted at the end of his presidency that he had not always been "attentive enough" to the parts of the job he did not care for, the theatrics, the "simplistic" displays of feelings and emotions designed "to satisfy the cable news hype-fest", Trump's presidency is the reductio ad absurdum of all that. It is all theatrics, all performance, all form with no content. His script is the only truth.

My dad spent 20 years as the D.C. police inspector in charge of Senate security. He would run to the House whenever there was trouble. So if on Jan. 6 Mike Dowd had been preventing insurrectionists from assaulting lawmakers, he would now be, in Trump’s eyes, not a hero deserving of a plaque, but a blackguard who was thwarting "patriots," as Trump calls the rioters he pardoned.