There is an assumption that great artists, especially subversive ones, live radical lives and embrace progressive politics. But Lynch was closer to Ralph Ellison, another artist from America’s heartland who peeled back the veneer of the political consensus to show both the fundamental cruelty and tender humanity of ordinary life. He was a filmmaker for whom conventional electoral politics were as sterile as conventional realism was stifling. But as Mel Brooks supposedly said, David Lynch was actually “Jimmy Stewart from Mars.” He was both all-American and something alien.
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