Perry also says he's a Republican because he "believes in free markets" like Dems don't. Also, it seems like the answer today would be a lot different...
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Yeah, Sorkin's idealized Republicans. He does more of this with the Newsroom, as Jeff Daniels' Republican also "believes in free markets" and a "strong defense." He was basically a Clinton Democrat.
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There was a clear avoidance on confronting the primary ideological driver for most Republicans since 1964.
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WW republicans were *never* animated by racism. The closest you ever got to that was the religious right who were explicitly called out for being antisemitic. But the GOP lawmakers on the WW were always good guys who were simply committed to small government and maximal “freedom.”
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So you get episodes where decent older republicans are shown desperately trying to help Leo avoid humiliation, or gay republicans are bravely shouldering their humiliation in the name of a lower tax burden for their farmers, etc.
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Sorkin was so worried about creating strawmen (or so we were meant to believe), that he turned the GOP into a bunch of principled, benevolent, avuncular stewards of democracy. Just a little old fashioned, is all. Wouldn’t hurt a fly.
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I think we called those Blue Dog Democrats in the 90s.
aug 13, 2025, 6:16 pm • 2 1 • view
Yes. But it was a fantasy to portray them populating the GOP.
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maybe not a fantasy, but propaganda? you know a lot of us on the outside look at those corporations as purveyors of propaganda
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That was my point
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