‘West Wing’ creator says show’s ‘reasonable’ Republican Party would seem ‘implausible’ today

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today’s Republican Party is nothing like the one in “The West Wing.”Sorkin, who created the ’90s political drama series, spoke at a Los Angeles event for his upcoming book on Saturday and addressed what he thinks the show would look like if made in the present day.“What would be different would be this, and I don’t want to get a rumble started over anything.

I’m afraid to say that right now — and maybe things will be different a year from now or two years from now, but right now — it would be implausible that the opposition party, that the Republican Party, was reasonable,” the 63-year-old TV writer said, according to The Hollywood Reporter.“People would watch that and it would be unfamiliar to them as the country that they live in,” added Sorkin. “On the show, while the Republicans were the opposition, they were reasonable, the Republicans that they dealt with.”“The West Wing” on NBC followed the administration of fictitious Democratic President Josiah Bartlet, played by Martin Sheen.

Sorkin revealed if he thinks “The West Wing” would be successful if it came out during the current political landscape.The show premiered in 1999 when Bill Clinton was president and concluded in 2006 during George W.