As recent events in Charlottesville, Va., have demonstrated, when a
public figure starts to joke about such things, it allows those with far scarier
convictions to relax their own filters, and suddenly, the national
discourse has swung
into ugly and entirely inappropriate territory — which Dayton and Faris don't shy away from depicting, and which should give the film added resonance this fall (though it almost certainly would've been a full - on zeitgeist phenomenon had the country elected its first woman president).