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In “The West Wing,” Aaron Sorkin gave us President Josiah Bartlet, a leftist fantasy of what a president should be — sharp-tongued, quick-witted, wise, and very, very far to the left. All these years later, Sorkin has taken to pages of the New York Times to give us his latest fantasy about the presidency. The Democrats, he says, should kick Old Joe to the curb and nominate none other than Willard Mitt Romney, the failed Republican candidate for president in 2012 and Never-Trump senator from Utah. Sorkin’s dotty recommendation shows two things above all: top Democrats are getting desperate, and they’re way, way out of touch.
Sorkin is, after all, a fiction writer, and his op-ed, published just hours before Joe Biden announced he was dropping out of the presidential race, demonstrates that he has only the most glancing understanding of the distinction between fantasy and reality. He refers to Biden’s “bad night,” that is, his debate with Trump, as if Old Joe hadn’t been repeatedly demonstrating his cognitive decline for over three years.
Diving deeper into his fantasy, Sorkin likens Biden’s disastrous debate performance to an illness that his fictional President Bartlet had, but concealed from the public, and asks this question about whether Bartlet should have come clean: “What if Bartlet’s opponent had been a dangerous imbecile with an observable psychiatric disorder who related to his supporters on a fourth-grade level and treated the law as something for suckers and poor people? And was a hero to white supremacists?”
“What if” indeed. This is a leftist coastal elitist’s caricature of Trump. The “dangerous imbecile” presided over a far healthier economy with far lower inflation rates than the Biden regime has brought us. When he was president, there was peace in Ukraine and Gaza. Sorkin, who no doubt is extremely worried about the future of “our democracy,” shows no indication of caring, or even knowing, about how the Biden regime worked to suppress the speech of COVID dissidents, or about just how flimsy the legal charges against Trump are, or about the Biden regime’s decidedly un-democratic weaponization of the “Justice” Department against his principal opponent.
The “hero to white supremacists” business is still more leftist fantasy. In the left’s paranoid nightmares, all opposition to their America-Last socialism is, at its core, nothing more or less than racism, with Donald Trump cast as the chief Klansman. Back in the real world, Trump is gaining unprecedented support from minority voters who are fed up with being bought off and taken for granted by Democrats, but Aaron Sorkin doesn’t live in the real world.
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Rick Gordon says
Obviously a fantasy – although a courageous stroke by centrists (if any are left in the Democrat party)!
Romney’s loss in the 2012 election was a huge American tragedy. Our nation and lives would be in a far safer, more civil society if he had been elected.
Jay says
Romeny, no likely because Hillary is certainly awaiting to pull a Tonya Harding on harris.
John Pepple says
Yes, they will assassinate Kamala in a way that can be blamed on the right. This will:
1. Negate the advantage that Trump got from the attempt to assassinate him.
2. Rile up all the crazies on the left to fever pitch with lots of rioting with the unspoken suggestion that the rioting will stop if Trump is defeated.
3. Get Kamala out of the way without having to publicly dump her, which would anger a lot of people.
Wellington says
“West Wing” wasn’t called by many “Left Wing” for nothing.
Amazing how Leftists never learn unless they cease being Leftist. Rather like Buttlims.
After all, there is no reforming foolishness and malevolence. The only “out” is leaving foolishness and malevolence once and for all.
Like Islam and Leftism. QED I contend here.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Mitt Romney? Couldn’t Sorkin have at least made a pit stop at Susan Collins, who has faithfully voted more often w/ the (D)s than the (R)s?
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Also, did Sorkin support Romney in 2012, when he actually did run for that office?