"Gabriel Over the White House" Relevant Today

 

If you haven't seen the movie "Gabriel Over the White House" you might want to look for it on late-night tv. I think it has some eerie relevance to the current presidential campaign. 

The basic point of the movie is that it would be a good thing to have a president who was so sure of himself that he takes over all power to do what he considers to be beneficial things for the country, no matter what anyone else says. Unfortunately, the movie makes you feel that the president who does this is a great hero, the greatest president of all time.

It's a scary film to me, especially when I found out that FDR enjoyed the film and watched it several times. What's more scary is listening to Donald Trump and realizing that this movie could be about a Trump presidency, or a Cruz one.