It is not unreasonable to assert that the leading candidates for both parties are playing with fire when they excite factious impulses and exacerbate factious divisions.
The "impurities" that need to be refined out include factious demands, whether coming from a minority or even a majority, that he believed are always latent in human beings.
For the many years it covers, the film maintains a tight focus on the chef as intelligent, factious, and evolving personality, the self he puts on stage.
If there is anything that defines the presidential campaigns this year, it is a general inattention to problems associated with the human proclivity to give in to factious impulses.