David Simon's new TV show, “The Plot Against America,” follows a working-class Jewish family struggling with their identity and what to do about intolerance, after Nazi sympathizer Charles Lindbergh is elected president.
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"Every one of the characters struggles with that question of: Where do you stand in an America that is transforming itself into something less than a republic? And that's kind of where we're at," he tells NPR.[Roth] is seizing on a moment that is politically accurate, which is that Roosevelt running for an unprecedented third term, feared Charles A. Lindbergh, the aviator, as a Republican nominee more than anyone.
I think the"othering" of the Jewish Americans in plot in the novel is just simply and almost perfectly allegorical to the othering of people with black and brown skin and Muslims and immigrants that have propelled this administration to power — whether people see it or not, I think it's just empirical.On how families are divided — in the book and in present-day America
I think I'm fairly convinced not only that it can happen here, but that we are right now on a road that it will happen here, that unless there's a sufficient level of awareness of how vulnerable we are and how fragile democracy actually is.
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