Keep It (a crooked media podcast) was kinda dunking on this show and I felt frustrated by that. They kept saying, "it's an old schtick, we're not learning new things about these people". I think that's necessarily true, I'm completely unsurprised that these old creeps will support toddlers with guns.

But also,

Sacha Cohen is demonstrating in a really plain way how the corporate flunky class of politicians can be manipulated. In the trailer he shows one Republican congressperson from Florida - Matt Gaetz - shut him down (before showing five that went along) and in the main show apparently he has a spot with Sanders where he spends five minutes spinning his wheels, unable to get Sanders to say anything strange.

I think there's a really good point here to be made: it's not hard to get a lackey to say whatever. "Someone from the guns lobby has given me a script? Which camera should I look into?" I can't respect Congressperson Matt Gaetz for his politics (and I'm not saying he isn't a lackey) but at the very least he is paying attention. If a weird man in terrible makeup and a ridiculously fake accent can get our nation's leaders to compare infants to owls just by claiming to be an Israeli gun advocate, surely the (Russian nationalist influenced) NRA has similar control.

These senators and congresspeople approach their job with roughly the same mindset that I approach mine, which is not a complement.