If you think today's political landscape is unusually brutal and dirty, George Clooney has a history lesson for you: It was just as bad 200 years ago.
"I think it's cyclical, and we're at a period of time that it probably not the best for politics," said Clooney at a Toronto International Film Festival press conference for "The Ides of March," a smart and cynical drama that he directed and in which he plays a charismatic presidential candidate.
"But if you look at the things Jefferson and Adams did to each other, that wasn't very nice either.