Who has done the most to shape the image of the Democratic party during the 2000s?
Obama? Spouses Clinton? Bernie Sanders?
“Jed Bartlet” could also be added to the list.
Bartlet was president in the tv drama “the West Wing”, written and directed by Aaron Sorkin.
Bartlet borrowed the charisma and brilliance from Bill Clinton. But he was also a nobel laureate in economics. And much more reliable as a husband than saxophonist from Arkansas.
on Sunday appeared Bartlets creator Aaron Sorkin in the Fareed Zakarias program on the tv channel CNN, and stated, among other things, the new gang of democrats who had taken the congress.
he liked them but that it was now high time for them to become adults. Stop focusing on the narrow issues of identity and formulate a rich, economic policy, his framtidsrecept ahead of the forthcoming presidential election.
When the boundary between reality and television is blurred in american politics was the director’s a little nonchalant words very seriously. It was, after all mästerstrategen behind Jed Bartlet who spoke about the situation in the party.
One of those who was provoked was the Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the 29-year-old democratic congressman from New York who enchants the whole world with his brillance on the social media.
She replied on Twitter, where she, among other things, objected that the rights issues can’t be reduced to a trend. Unless people feel seen, they will not vote, wrote Ocasio-Cortez.
Aaron Sorkins statement gives a taste of how messy the fight for the democratic presidentnomineringen will be. If the director of a political tv drama can raise the temperature in the temporary the bathroom in Washington DC, how will it go when the civil war in the democratic party breaks loose, seriously?
Sorkin is hardly the only 57-year-old liberal who feels a little alienated from the party on social media right now.
It’s a little funny an hour over the policy.
In the middle of January sent the upstart from Texas, Beto O’Rourke, live from the dentist: he tried to communicate with the electorate despite the fact that he had a hose in his mouth, his dentists: basic rubberised fingers and her tools. Senator Elizabeth Warren, the economics professor at harvard university, livesände recently when she drank a beer in his kitchen. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is the genre’s master: she can cook the macaroni and go on about current politics is that she’s never done anything else.
former united states president Barrack Obama and former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton before the us elections in 2016. Photo: Roger Turesson
It is charming to have a look into their home environment. But you can also come to mind historian Jill Lepores conclusion in the book, “These Truths”: social media dissolves the border between the political elite and the mass audience but for the sake of making the policy itself more accessible. During all this hemmatid of the politicians have large portions of the state apparatus kept closed. There is something backwards when the directors must call on the politicians to stop playing the actor on social media.
quickly, with new expectations. Joe Biden, Obama’s 76-year-old vice-president, feels if he belongs to another century. His life story is gripping – exhustru and daughter died in a car accident, the son of brain cancer – but his style is elevated and patriarchal. As strange seems Manhattanmiljardären Michael Bloomberg in this context. It is hard to imagine either liverapportera from the dentist. And what would framskymta between the teeth? Diamonds?
Bernie Sanders has solved this equation by being so grumpy to themselves gubbigheten sufficient as a currency. I listened to the Sanders in a on in Washington at the end of november and it is still unbelievable what a response he evokes in the 25-year-old students, a lot of the audience was also ickevita and women. According to Sanders, he got more and more young votes in election 2016 than Clinton, and Trump jointly.
the Success of the left wing in the mellanårsvalen has raised the Sanders star further. He may be regarded as the leading ideologen on the field, in the force of its clarity and the impact on young röststarka congressmen.
completely uninterested in talking about himself, which can benefit him in the long term. When the primaries well kicks off, we are perhaps still measured on the tandläkardokumentärer.
Kamala Harris confirmed on Monday that she intends to try to become president. Hardly a surprise.
Harris is the former minister of justice in the state of California, which is AMERICA’s most populous state. Her uppväxthistoria is almost as ornate fascinating as Barack Obama’s. Mother immigrant from India, dad Stanfordprofessor from Jamaica.
Harris has, in addition to experience, a rejälhet in his appearance that allows television viewers calm. If Aaron Sorkin could make a tv series about a female president to see Kamala Harris ahead of him in the Oval office. With full control of kärnvapenkoderna.
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