Essentially weak men who spend their lives striking poses of strength can be fatally tempted by the Gotterdammerung impulse.
Little George is hopeless, and always has been--and Big George knows it, and always has, and so has the whole family.
Dick and Lynn love their daughter. She's an actual real person to them. They will stand by her, as they should, and the hell with ideology.
His name and ethnicity, his whole biography. This is the age of the mix and fusion and backgrounds don't get more fused and mixed than his. He has icon potential, for that reason.
He deftly transforms a mindless chauvinist attack into a subtle historical analysis of American character, American exceptionalism, American ego. But here's my question for him.
I beg and plead and yell and scream, but they are bloated with hubris, convinced of the epochal invincibility of their project.
