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Review: ‘Boys State’ follows a contentious mock election filled with emotions, intrigue, and shady politics

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Boys State (★★★★☆) has found the perfect formula for distilling our modern political era down to one riveting campaign among a group of teens in Texas.

Since 1935 — starting in Illinois, then throughout the U.S. — the American Legion has sponsored Boys State, which assembles high school lads for a week-long immersion in the functioning of state and local government.

The deep dive into policy and civil discourse also confers a profound education in partisanship, at least according to the film’s broad insight into the summer 2018 assembly of Boys State Texas.Day one, participants are randomly assigned to two political parties, Federalist and Nationalist, the members of which must caucus to decide their respective party’s positions and.

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