If the age of Trump has given us anything, it’s the confidence to admit that not all opinions are equal. For a long time, respectable media outlets seemed hell-bent on appearing neutral even in the face of the absurd.  Desperate not be labeled “biased,”  journalists engaged in a kind of “theater of fairness,” dignifying the outrageous opinions of its guests with airtime. (Remember Orly Taitz?)

Director Adam Bhala Lough takes this exact “fair and balanced” approach in Alt-Right: The Age of Rage which premiered at SXSW on Monday, March 9th.  This time, the effect is exactly as you would expect;  give a bunch of white supremacists the microphone and they end up sounding like blazing lunatics.