Mamet's shift to the right has allowed his defenders to dismiss criticism of his views as liberal bias. I don't subscribe to Mamet's ideologies, but the problem for me has less to do with the nature of his reactionary positions than with the way he has allowed the polemicist to overshadow the dramatic poet.
But when was Mamet not a polemicist? Curious that this became a problem for the critic only when Mamet's views shifted. In spots, Glengarry Glen Ross is polemical to the point of caricature.
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