Aaron Sorkin Says Democrats Should Replace Biden With This Familiar Republican

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Aaron Sorkin Says Democrats Should Replace Biden With This Familiar ***********

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sees a stark parallel between his hit series “

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” and the presidential conundrum facing the Democratic Party this election cycle. In

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, Sorkin reimagined the moment the show’s President Jed Bartlet was faced with a serious illness as one that sowed doubt in the public’s mind, much like

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’s poor debate performance against former President

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in June did in real life.

His conclusion is a unique one. Sorkin said Democrats should nominate a *********** to head their party’s ticket — and not just any ***********, he wrote, but one that has cross-party name recognition:

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“Nominating Mr. Romney would be putting our money where our mouth is: a clear and powerful demonstration that this election isn’t about what our elections are usually about, but about stopping a deranged man from taking power,” Sorkin insisted. “Surely Mr. Romney, who doesn’t have to be introduced to voters, would peel off enough *********** votes to win, probably by a lot. The double haters would be turned into single haters and the Nikki Haley voters would have somewhere to go, Ms. Haley having disqualified herself when she endorsed the leader of an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the government.”

Despite the fact that Romney does not back issues key to the party — ********* rights, raising the minimum wage, strengthening public education, expanding transgender rights and instituting progressive tax reform are all listed by Sorkin — the playwright and screenwriter added that the choice in November is essentially between Trump and a not-Trump candidate, and “the not-Trump candidate needs only one qualification: to win enough votes from a cross section of Americans to close off the former president’s Electoral College path back to power.”

The party could tap former President Barack Obama to, a la his famed 2004 speech that catapulted him to political stardom, “come forth at the Democratic convention next month in Chicago and remind us, once again, that we’re not red states and blue states but the ******* States by full-throatedly endorsing his old rival.” Romney himself “could make the case that the Democrats are putting country before party in ways that the MAGA movement will not, and announce his bipartisan cabinet picks at the convention as well.”

Nominating Romney would “put a lump in our throats” and simultaneously “be the end of Donald Trump in presidential politics,” Sorkin concluded.

Predictably, there have been numerous colorful reactions to Sorkin’s suggestion. Writer and director Alex Fernie

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on X, “Few people exemplify the concept of a ***** guy’s smart guy better than Aaron Sorkin.”

Few people exemplify the concept of a ***** guy’s smart guy better than Aaron Sorkin.

— Alex Fernie (@FernieCommaAlex)

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Columnist Matthew Yglesias reminded people what “The West Wing” is actually about, and what it did in a strikingly similar situation. “I feel like everyone, including Aaron Sorkin, has forgotten the plot of the hit television series ‘The West Wing’ in which the incumbent president is revealed to have covered up the truth about his compromised health and just guts it out and wins reelection,” he

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I feel like everyone, including Aaron Sorkin, has forgotten the plot of the hit television series “The West Wing” in which the incumbent president is revealed to have covered up the truth about his compromised health and just guts it out and wins reelection.

— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias)

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Journalist Yashar Ali saw Sorkin’s best and raised him. “Democrats should shock the world by nominating Donald J. Trump as their nominee in August,” he

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Writer Charlotte Clymer summed things up when

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, “Aaron Sorkin published an op-ed in NYT this morning that calls on Democrats to nominate a *********** in place of Pres. Biden next month at the convention, specifically Mitt Romney. For real. Don’t click on it. Don’t read it. I promise you ain’t missing anything. Parody has *****.”

Aaron Sorkin published an op-ed in NYT this morning that calls on Democrats to nominate a *********** in place of Pres. Biden next month at the convention, specifically Mitt Romney. For real. Don’t click on it. Don’t read it. I promise you ain’t missing anything.

Parody has *****.

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— Charlotte Clymer

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Journalist Imani Gandy condemned the idea entirely. “Aaron Sorkin writing an op-ed in the New York Times suggesting that the Democrats nominate Mitt Romney is peak West Wing brain rot,” she

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to her audience.

Aaron Sorkin writing an op-ed in the New York Times suggesting that the Democrats nominate Mitt Romney is peak West Wing brain rot.

— Imani Gandy (Orca’s Version)

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Screenwriter Sarfraz Manzoor

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that the idea hasn’t been suggested before… and that’s on purpose. “Aaron Sorkin in the New York Times on what the Democrats should do next. No one else has suggested this — perhaps for good reason,” he said.

Aaron Sorkin in the New York Times on what the Democrats should do next. No one else has suggested this- perhaps for good reason.

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— Sarfraz Manzoor (@sarfrazmanzoor)

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, “liberals are awesome. even in their fantasies where anything is possible they are still absolute f–king losers.”

Screenwriter Josh Olson

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, promoting his own podcast on Sorkin’s famed series, “If you’re finally just now realizing that Aaron Sorkin is a deeply ************* and profoundly ******* man, may I offer you 171 episodes of extremely entertaining and thought provoking I TOLD YOU SO?”

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