While some people watched the dueling town halls last Thursday night, I watched the West Wing special on HBO Max. The show, which has now been off the air for twice as many years as it was on, remains my all-time favorite. It’s always been competence and decency porn; a fantasy about what would happen if laws and decisions were made by not just the smartest people in the room, but the most honorable. It even imagined a centrist Republican presidential candidate who was pro-choice, refused to court the far right, believed in science, and looked like Alan Alda in his grandfather phase (who wouldn’t want Alan Alda as president). While we can’t have that in our 2020 election, I can bring you Topper McFaun, a GOP representative in Vermont who wrote one of the most common sense laws about sex and contraceptives we’ve seen in a while. I haven’t checked out the rest of his voting record, and I don’t think I will, because right now, Topper McFaun is giving me a little bit of hope.
Topper McFaun Is Giving Me Hope
Topper McFaun Is Giving Me Hope
Topper McFaun Is Giving Me Hope
While some people watched the dueling town halls last Thursday night, I watched the West Wing special on HBO Max. The show, which has now been off the air for twice as many years as it was on, remains my all-time favorite. It’s always been competence and decency porn; a fantasy about what would happen if laws and decisions were made by not just the smartest people in the room, but the most honorable. It even imagined a centrist Republican presidential candidate who was pro-choice, refused to court the far right, believed in science, and looked like Alan Alda in his grandfather phase (who wouldn’t want Alan Alda as president). While we can’t have that in our 2020 election, I can bring you Topper McFaun, a GOP representative in Vermont who wrote one of the most common sense laws about sex and contraceptives we’ve seen in a while. I haven’t checked out the rest of his voting record, and I don’t think I will, because right now, Topper McFaun is giving me a little bit of hope.