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Right America: Feeling Wronged
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Right America: Feeling Wronged

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Alexandra Pelosi points her camera at the crowds gathering for John McCain and Sarah Palin rallies during the 2008 presidential campaign, letting supporters talk directly into the lens about Barack Obama, the media, and what they see as a country slipping away from them. The footage moves from rally line to rally line, catching chants, homemade signs, and off-the-cuff remarks that range from policy grievances to open racial hostility, with Pelosi rarely interjecting beyond the occasional prompting question. Campaign staffers and a few Republican officials appear alongside the rally-goers, visibly uncomfortable at moments with what their own base is saying on camera. The film does not editorialize with narration or graphics; it simply assembles the interviews and lets the contradictions sit, the appeals to patriotism next to the anger, the calls for civility next to the slurs. Shot in the final months of the campaign, it works as a time capsule of a specific mood among a slice of the electorate, and it was divisive on release precisely because it offers no framing to soften what it records.