White With Fear Review – Unpacks GOP Strongholds Through Political History

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Category: Indies, Docs, Foreign Film

Published on Monday, 02 June 2025 13:55

Written by Janet Walker

White With Fear, from Area23A, unpacks the Republican agenda and with expert interviews builds the doctrine from its inception to the ideological extreme and divisive agenda and further into the fearmongering strategy that wins elections.

White With Fear begins with a brief lesson in politics and traces the divide and conquer theory to Richard Nixon's presidency. As with any presidential hopeful, they employee a team of strategist to aid the campaign. Nixon's staffers and strategist explain to win voter's over, he would have to divide the country, using the concept of law and order, as well as tapping into the divisions that race at the time, the division was the whites and the blacks demanding civil rights.

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White With Fear is a chronological documentary, and once we have the foundation for the political race theory, we move into the modernizing of the divide and conquer through race and fear (the "immigrants will eat your pets" much like in the movie "Beauty and the Beast," we understand the beast will eat your children). The GOP presents the magic mirror and impresses upon white voters the ills which have been inflicted upon them by the others.

While the documentary marches deep into the trenches of political mudwrestling, it misses the residual elements of bitterness from years of Affirmative Action, which in its original concept was meant to even the hiring field for all races and ethnicities, what it became over the years, is the tool in which qualified white applicants where routinely passed over by unqualified racially diverse candidates. Having employment opportunities stolen means money has been stolen, and with no place to report the theft, which is the core of law and order, whites who have lost through Affirmative Action to qualified or unqualified others have no recourse, except to vote.

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More than simply presenting a dogma, it is clear that the republican rebirth is built on an extremist agenda, which appeals, maybe not in its fullness, or exactness, to a disgruntled demographic.

This tried and true strategy has modernized, and as America is now the melting pot, with many races and ethnicities, the ability to galvanize fear, segregating candidates is amplified. As the documentary progresses it explains the demonization of Muslims after 9/11, again the use of fear to separate.

Of course, as the documentary moves into the Obama years, it becomes magnified into the beast will allow the terrorist to enter the united states, blow up your cities, and eat your children. Essentially it is the same rhetoric, as the Nixon campaign only amplified with news networks, fed to the masses through media, and lined the pockets. And when the money flows so freely, the rhetoric increases, more hate equals more money.

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White With Fear is a polarizing documentary, and while it, with clarity, lays bare the republican strategy and agenda, some of the scenes can be a bit jarring and abrasive. Having the ability to understand the rhetoric, and understand that politics is a dirty game, and has modernized into a mudwrestling, smack down, doesn't stop the temperature from rising as the commentator's blast alienating messaging meant to instill within viewers fear. We see how America's conservative power brokers built influence by exploiting racial divisions and promoting White victimhood narratives.

White With Fear features exclusive interviews with influential political figures, scholars, journalists, and insiders, including Hillary Clinton, Steve Bannon, Rep. Jamie Raskin, Eddie Glaude, Ian Haney López, Leah Wright Rigueur, Rick Perlstein, Aasif Mandvi, Tim Miller, Stuart Stevens, Rick Gates, Sally Bradshaw, Jean Guerrero, Carol Anderson, Wajahat Ali.

White With Fear opens June 3, 2025. See it (if you dare).

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Country: US.

Language: English.

Runtime: 86 minutes.

Release Date: June 3, 2025 (digital download).

Director: Andrew Goldberg.

Producer: Andrew Goldberg.

Executive Producer: Eric Ward, Diana Robinson.

Contributors: Hillary Clinton, Steve Bannon, Rep. Jamie Raskin, Eddie Glaude, Ian Haney López, Leah Wright Rigueur, Rick Perlstein, Aasif Mandvi, Tim Miller, Stuart Stevens, Rick Gates, Sally Bradshaw, Jean Guerrero, Carol Anderson, Wajahat Ali.

Janet Walker is the publisher, founder, and sole owner of Haute-Lifestyle.com. A graduate of New York University, she has been covering international news through the Beltway Insider, a weekly review of the nation's top stories, for more than a decade.  A general beat writer/reporter and entertainment/film critic, she is also an accomplished news/investigative news/crime reporter and submitted for Pulitzer Prize consideration "Cops Conspire to Deep Six Sex Assaults" in the Breaking News Category and was persuaded to withdraw the submission. Ms. Walker has completed five screenplays, "The Six Sides of Truth," "The Assassins of Fifth Avenue," "The Wednesday Killer," "The Manhattan Project," and the sci-fi thriller "Project 13: The Last Day." She is completing the non-fiction narrative, "Unholy Alliances: A True Crime Story," which is expected to be released in early 2025. She is a member of the Los Angeles Press Club, the National Writers Union, and a former member of the International Federation of Journalists.