Heil Darling

 The Films That Foretold Fascism | The New Republic

In “Hollywood’s Terror Films: Do They Reflect an American State of Mind?” (1946), Kracauer warned that “the kind of horror formerly attributed only to life under Hitler … has now been acclimated to the American scene,” and that this was “more than accidental.” In discussing movies like Henry Hathaway’s Dark Corner (1946); Billy Wilder’s Lost Weekend (1945); Orson Welles’s The Stranger (1946); George Cukor’s Gaslight (1944); Hitchcock’s Suspicion (1941), Shadow of a Doubt (1943), and Spellbound (1945); and even Disney’s The Three Caballeros (1944), he somehow noted a “genuine and constant affinity between sadism and fascism,” and suggested that the “sadistic energies” circulating in American society might be “specifically suited to provide fuel for fascism.” 

The Manchurian Candidate

Matt Damon features as a Chinese warlord, a ' Wolf Warrior " creating havoc in the CIA and the originator of the Trojan Horse virus. The crypto-fascist dictator is not disarming - he is deceiving.  Should strong AI not decide the Mid-terms in its favor then little stands between a President Damon taking the reigns from current POTUS Denali. As smooth a transition as the one from Hindenburg.