Perspective: 'Running With Beto' catches the candidate at his most golden, before his mojo ran off the road
“Running with Beto” captures Beto O’Rourke on the 2018 campaign trail.
The Vanity Fair magazine profile of him in the April issue — with its Annie Leibovitz photographs and an uncomfortably self-aggrandizing cover quote — landed with a thud. O’Rourke’s habit of standing on diner counters to rouse Iowa voters seemed more ill-mannered than casually cool. The poll numbers turned south.
How is this possibly fair? It isn't, but it remains a flawed trait of O'Rourke's generation — to crap on one another's hopes and dreams the moment we sense a calculated move, a phony marketing plan or the stench of true politics. And so it happens that Gen X's political legacy will instead belong to the likes of former House speaker Paul D. Ryan and his love of self-determined capitalism above all else, or to newly sworn Supreme Court justices Neil M.
Part of this comes from O’Rourke’s evident dedication to an equitable domestic arrangement: As a husband and father circa 2018 he must, at a minimum, find the time and effort to present as a helpful and capable partner-parent — a challenge Modigliani could have worked harder to explore beyond driveway basketball games and short-order pancakes in the kitchen. How does the O’Rourke household function? There are only hints of its pleasures and tensions.
Nothing stresses out a modern dad more than the specter of a 1970s-’80s rerun of this dynamic — the fear that he will be remembered mostly for his relentless commitment to being out of town. Many Gen-Xers grew up as latchkey kids who were forbidden from calling our parents at work unless someone was bleeding to death; Beto and Amy O’Rourke, like their peers, clearly fret over the emotional toll his campaign will take on the family unit.
Oddly, though, “Running With Beto” is most compelling when O’Rourke isn’t in it. In moving portraits of some of his die-hard supporters, the film finally becomes the soaring ode to grass-roots politics that it desires to be, conveying just how hard it is to knock on doors, post signs and carry one’s pride as a Democrat in a state so determinedly red.
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