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Originally Posted by k0nr4d
Well, I suppose the answer is that everyone will see the (completely useless) government in that movie as the opposite of what they would support, because everyone thinks their views are the correct ones.
You viewed them as right wing, most likely because you saw they were useless and ineffective, unwilling to listen to science, and caring only about the next election. I saw them as left-wing, for the very same reason that you saw them as right-wing.
I suppose this suggests that the government in the movie was meant to just portray "the government" and not any specific party or side.
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To be fair, the president in the movie is mostly a caricature of Trump.
In the movie, Meryl Streep plays a president who:
a) Used to be a former television star that went into politics
b) is vocally outspoken in her anti-intellectualism and anti-science ignorance
c) abuses cronyism
d) abuses nepotism
I could go on, but I think you get the point. There are SOME elements of other presidents in the character, like the track-suits that Hilary Clinton used to wear, but the bulk of the character is based off of Trump.