For a series entitled “The Plot Against America,” viewers can’t help but think about how the story could resonate with today’s turbulent political climate ahead of the 2020 elections. “We know what happened in WWII, we know what the Holocaust was, we know what America first meant in 1940 and what was at stake,” creator David Simon told Variety on the red carpet for the show’s premiere at Florence Gould Hall on Wednesday night. “The ‘othering’ that’s going on right now in this country quite obviously is the misuse and abuse of people of color, black and brown people, immigrants, people from Muslim countries, people who are Islamic.
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