"Idiocracy" is still a worthless artifact 20 years later
In a Salon commentary marking the 20th anniversary of Mike Judge's flopped 2006 sci-fi comedy, senior writer Alex Galbraith calls "Idiocracy" — in which Army librarian Joe Bauers time travels to a garbage-strewn dystopia ruled by wrestler-president Camacho — a worthless artifact whose contempt for the "stupid" was tired at release. He argues the "it was a documentary" clickbait its creator and stars egged on lets viewers sneer at fellow Americans while doing nothing, noting Terry Crews' Camacho bears no meaningful map to its target and that Bush was no fool and Trump no dummy.
