As the new year begins and a Trump presidency comes closer to becoming a reality, I couldn't help but think of the climactic scene from one of my favorite Frank Capra movies "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington". Frank Capra was one of the great filmmakers of the 1930s and early 1940s. Frank Capra was a conservative Republican. But during the 1930s he was an open minded man who collaborated with more liberal screenwriters to produce his many classic movies. Robert Riskin, the screenwriter of It Happened One Night, Mr. Deeds Goes To Town, You Can't Take It With You and Meet John Due, was for instance a New Deal liberal. Sid Buchman, the screenwriter of Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, was an American communist. So Capra's films were a mixture of both progressive and conservative values.