Eerie parallels

In 1933, MGM released a highly controversial film called Gabriel Over the White House, starring Walter Huston as a dictatorial president. It was no coincidence that the movie came out shortly after the election of FDR, who reportedly loved the film, with its propagandizing in favor of a kind of American fascism, its celebration of a strong chief executive who could cut through red tape (you know, like the Constitution). Here's a brief video in which Gene Healy at the CATO Institute discusses the film, and here is a comprehensive Wikipedia article.

Why post about this now? Oh, no particular reason...