If you watched this and knew nothing else, you would think Hillary Clinton wasn't even an active participant in her own campaign. You wouldn't know anything about her or her journey to her nomination. You wouldn't know that Hillary's campaign decided not to campaign intensively in Michigan, Pennsylvania, or Wisconsin, believing that they had the race in the bag there. So Hillary had as much to do with her loss in 2016 as Donald Trump or Vladimir Putin.
So what does this documentary do right? It gives you a detailed look at Trump's 2016 campaign and talks to people who were inside that campaign. I think it accurately pictures the 2016 American electorate as believing that too many politicians on both sides of the aisle were only interested in what made corporate interests happy and could care less about them and that Trump, with all of his warts, was an outsider who seemed to want to address the things that they cared about. And as always, Frontline documentaries are well produced with a narrator whose voice emphasizes the gravity of the situation.
So what does this documentary do right? It gives you a detailed look at Trump's 2016 campaign and talks to people who were inside that campaign. I think it accurately pictures the 2016 American electorate as believing that too many politicians on both sides of the aisle were only interested in what made corporate interests happy and could care less about them and that Trump, with all of his warts, was an outsider who seemed to want to address the things that they cared about. And as always, Frontline documentaries are well produced with a narrator whose voice emphasizes the gravity of the situation.
