Jon Stewart's 'Irresistible' is a condescending fantasy of 'real' America

Irresistible is intended to speak to our present and our future, but it can't seem to escape the past.

Written and directed by Jon Stewart, the film opens in the days leading up to the 2016 election before skipping ahead to 2017 or so, and from start to finish it feels like an artifact of those times. It's of a piece with...