SOUTHSIDE WITH YOU, A sweet and schmaltzy presidential rom-com. PAT SCOLA, COURTESY OF MIRAMAX AND ROADSIDE ATTRACTIONS
There’s only one way you hold a nation as big and diverse as the United States together, and it’s not with Congress, or even with the electoral college. It’s with a story, an ongoing performance of a national identity and mission statement. This is why it wasn’t a mistake for me to watch several of the Democratic National Convention speeches stoned this year, which is to say, it wasn’t a mistake for me to experience all politics as theater.
