America has caught up to Sacha Baron Cohen

The big, shocking capper of Who Is America?'s first episode sees Cohen's character Erran Morad, an iron-jawed Israeli gun activist, coax several current and former members of Congress into endorsing a program that would arm kindergarten students. People like former U.S. Senator Trent Lott, Rep. Joe Wilson, former Rep. Joe Walsh, and gun lobbyist Larry Pratt are filmed reading ludicrous prepared statements peppered with lines like "Our Founding Fathers did not put an age limit on the Second Amendment!" It's a gotcha moment meant to underline the blind extremism of ideology - but is that something American viewers really need further confirmation of right now?

source: Article 'America Has Caught Up to Sacha Baron Cohen' by David Sims; www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/07/who-is-america-sacha-baron-cohen-review/565280/; The Atlantic; 16 July 2018