There are spoilers below, though I blocked the most obvious.
As already mentioned, the OP doesn't seem to have watched, or at least not to have understood, the movie.
I think the movie studiously avoided being a "position piece" at all. It was really an interestingly-styled whodunit, with not a lot of politics in it, other than general notions (like how the result of some event may be the opposite of what was intended).
Main point: the President wasn't shot by a liberal who disagreed with him. He was shot by someone who - in a manner that was at least moderately unhinged - blamed him personally for the death of a serviceman. If someone made a movie in which a character shot FDR in 1944 for the same reason, no one would say, "It's right wing propaganda - no anti-New-Dealer wanted FDR dead!"
Violent liberal protestors trying to harm police and the like? Utter crap.
Three responses:
(a) What rock have you been hiding under? This happens all the time. I've seen it personally. Nobody (including the film) depicts all, or even a large percentage, of the disaffected behaving this way, but some do. Same goes for protesters of other stripes as well.
(b) The film makes the whole confrontation between the protesters and police pretty ambiguous and muddy. Among other things, it's mentioned that there are anarchists who are just out for violence among the crowd (as in Seattle in 1999), at points it's pretty easy to interpret what we see as the police overreacting and turning aggressive (as in Chicago in 1968), and everything is narrated or shot from a variety of different subjective points of view anyway.
(c) The protests were really just a big red herring anyway. They didn't have anything to do with the assassination. They were more of an impediment to the assassin than an aid. Indeed, they nearly scotched the assassin's plan entirely, as nervousness nearly made Bush skip the rope line walk.
The way they talked about Bush was fawning and adoring.
This goes back to my first observation. The movie clearly wasn't intended to take sides. They had protesters who said Bush was terrible, and they had an aide who said he was great.
Apparently the OP is horrified by hearing anything with which he disagrees.
The fact that they made this during his term is highly offensive to me.
This seems to have been a pretty common reaction, and probably killed the movie commercially.
Because you would react ... classic projection
Amusing that the OP talks about projection while enganging in exactly that.
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