Donald Trump bids to revive paranoid melodrama

Given the fondness that the president-elect and so many of his appointees seem to have for Russian President Vladimir Putin, life may be about to imitate — if not exceed — art, says Nina L Khrushcheva.

Donald Trump seems determined to revive a forgotten Hollywood genre: the paranoid melodrama.

Perhaps the greatest film in this genre, The Manchurian Candidate, concerns a communist plot to use the brainwashed son of a right-wing family to upend the American political system.