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Another crazy idea
Our presidential politics are playing out as if this was the latest episode of The West Wing.
In the final season, when Santos is running against Vinick, all kinds of weird things happened. A nuclear reactor melted down in Vinck's home state. Santos was paying a strange woman monthly for some reason. The Democratic VP candidate died on Election Day.
How is our reality that far removed from Aaron Sorkin's brainchild?