Elizabeth Spiers: I think Dems are dealing with chaos of our own making right now and among other things, I blame the West Wing for brain poisoning an entire generation of political operatives.

I think Dems are dealing with chaos of our own making right now and among other things, I blame the West Wing for brain poisoning an entire generation of political operatives.

"The West Wing" might've brain-poisoned some politicians, too. At times I got a really uncomfortable impression that Obama was running his real-life administration as Jed Bartlet cosplay...

I think that's an apt comparison. Also, notably the Bartlett character was supposed to be a minor player on the show and they made him a major one because he was very popular with audiences!

I wanted to be Toby Ziegler sooooooo badly.

Toby would have fixed this by now

Those Martin Sheen fundraising spots were a little too successful

The chickenshittery from our own electeds and donors has been gross. It’s hilarious to hear Biden campaigning against the party elite!

The GOP has destroyed every compromise the centrist moderates have made with them, and today are actively undermining the constitution. Rigging SCOTUS should never have been allowed. No way to form a coalition with rapist fraudsters!

Modeled on Bill Clinton presidency, so that checks out

bsky.app/profile/wron...

Democracy is how we work out psychological pathology and cognitive dissonance at the societal level. Violence? Not good psych. Not good religion. Not good politics.

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