DAVID MARCUS: It's been 25 years since 'The West Wing' ruined American politics
Sen. Bill Hagerty, R-Tenn., joined 'America's Newsroom' to discuss why he believes the world is less safe under the leadership of the Biden-Harris administration and his take on the Iranian president's claim to want peace in the Middle East.
On Monday, the cast of the TV show "The West Wing" appeared at the White House, with President Joe Biden posting a photo saying "Always a pleasure welcoming President Bartlet and his staff back to the White House."
It was like seeing two fake presidents at once, and neither the fast-fading current commander in chief nor the make-believe one have been anything but terrible for American politics.
In life there are many things that are fun, or tasty, or stimulating that really aren’t very good for you. It is now clear that "The West Wing," Aaron Sorkin’s seminal drama set in the White House was one of them.
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What Sorkin, and a supremely talented cast, tapped into back in 1999 was a new way of looking at politics in which the two major parties were no longer seeking common goals through different approaches and policies.
Too many of us are still stuck in Aaron Sorkin’s black and white world of politics, still enemies of our own fellow citizens.
Instead, each party was first and foremost a team, one of which represented moral goodness and progress, and almost always won, while the other was........
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