Mr. Smith Goes to Washington is THE iconic movie about American politics because its story is one that Americans have always wanted to believe about their democracy: that no matter how venal and corrupt politics can be, a virtuous, innocent man like Jimmy Stewart’s Mr. Smith — a small-town nobody picked by cynical powerbrokers to fill a Senate seat — can triumph and redeem it.
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