I know he's since walked it back but Aaron Sorkin endorsing Romney for the Democratic presidential candidate is both the most Sorkin and Democrat timeline possible. It's impossible to overstate how much that norm-worshipper is responsible for the party's current state and anyone owning or referring to the West Wing in 2024 should be on a list.
The West Wing was, I don't know if it was BAD, but it was definitely Of A Time, and of a specific vision of how that organization could have worked. It's kind of like how The Bourne Identity movies (well, at least the first one) paint the FBI as this brutally efficient, effective, and bloodless collection of people too smart for their own good; we know it's fiction because the real-world FBI is nothing like that, but if you squint it's almost how we WISH the FBI was because that's how we feel like it SHOULD be. Same with West Wing and the tippy-top of the White House.
From Luke Savage's magnum opus: "Even in their most unconstrained and idealized political fantasies, liberals manage to accomplish nothing."
The show was bad, and that it was aspirational made it equally dangerous. The most famous scene was Martin Sheen cursing at God in Latin, asking why the Lord Almighty wasn't satisfied that he (Sheen) had balanced the budget. He fills two vacant Supreme Court seats with polar opposite judicial appointments in the name of bipartisanship. Obama's cabinet and staff worshipped this show and we are all suffering the consequences.
I think it's because "political operatives" have no expertise beyond what happened "in the last election" and their resume is basically "This is what happened in the last cycle" but that is dumb, because of how quickly social media evolves. 2012, say, is a hundred years ago due to social media, 2020 is 50 yrs ago.
Wish I could agree with you Jack but can't. You're a young man so you haven't seen the many many many years the Dems continue to disappoint. They don't walk the talk, Jack. The elite corporatist of American multi-conglomerates, hedge funds, the Military Congressional Complex and the billionaire oligarch s own them. Just watch Jack and learn (hopefully).
I know he's since walked it back but Aaron Sorkin endorsing Romney for the Democratic presidential candidate is both the most Sorkin and Democrat timeline possible. It's impossible to overstate how much that norm-worshipper is responsible for the party's current state and anyone owning or referring to the West Wing in 2024 should be on a list.
The West Wing was, I don't know if it was BAD, but it was definitely Of A Time, and of a specific vision of how that organization could have worked. It's kind of like how The Bourne Identity movies (well, at least the first one) paint the FBI as this brutally efficient, effective, and bloodless collection of people too smart for their own good; we know it's fiction because the real-world FBI is nothing like that, but if you squint it's almost how we WISH the FBI was because that's how we feel like it SHOULD be. Same with West Wing and the tippy-top of the White House.
From Luke Savage's magnum opus: "Even in their most unconstrained and idealized political fantasies, liberals manage to accomplish nothing."
The show was bad, and that it was aspirational made it equally dangerous. The most famous scene was Martin Sheen cursing at God in Latin, asking why the Lord Almighty wasn't satisfied that he (Sheen) had balanced the budget. He fills two vacant Supreme Court seats with polar opposite judicial appointments in the name of bipartisanship. Obama's cabinet and staff worshipped this show and we are all suffering the consequences.
Brain. Poison.
https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/2017/04/how-liberals-fell-in-love-with-the-west-wing
I just wanna clarify - what about referring to the west wing in a more...I'll say derogatory way?
I think it's because "political operatives" have no expertise beyond what happened "in the last election" and their resume is basically "This is what happened in the last cycle" but that is dumb, because of how quickly social media evolves. 2012, say, is a hundred years ago due to social media, 2020 is 50 yrs ago.
As a man who is dating one of the writers on this blog once said, "the only norm I care about is Norm MacDonald."
And, unlike the bullshit the GOP pulled during the Trump admin, NO RULES WERE BROKEN! THIS IS ALL FINE! Go Mom-ala!
Your article is opinion with no supporting facts...
Wish I could agree with you Jack but can't. You're a young man so you haven't seen the many many many years the Dems continue to disappoint. They don't walk the talk, Jack. The elite corporatist of American multi-conglomerates, hedge funds, the Military Congressional Complex and the billionaire oligarch s own them. Just watch Jack and learn (hopefully).
I think Jack knows all this stuff. Have you not read anything else he's ever posted?
Maybe he does but this writing proven a tad niave on my reading.