{"id":396777,"date":"2021-04-07T15:28:47","date_gmt":"2021-04-07T19:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=396777"},"modified":"2021-04-07T15:28:49","modified_gmt":"2021-04-07T19:28:49","slug":"aaron-sorkin-tolerating-trump-supporters-like-tolerating-racists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/aaron-sorkin-tolerating-trump-supporters-like-tolerating-racists\/","title":{"rendered":"Aaron Sorkin: Tolerating Trump Supporters Like Tolerating Racists"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Faaron-sorkin-tolerating-trump-supporters-like-tolerating-racists%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=396777&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-784.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>According to Hollywood screenwriter Aaron Sorkin, whose recent iteration of \u201cTo Kill A Mockingbird\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/destroying-icon-hollywood-puts-leftist-spin-kill-hank-berrien\">completely alters the character<\/a> Atticus Finch to fit a modern progressive narrative, Trump supporters are unworthy of tolerance in the same way that southern racists were unworthy of tolerance.<\/p>\n<p>Appearing on left-wing filmmaker Michael Moore\u2019s podcast, the Oscar-winning writer of \u201cThe Social Network\u201d said that when adapting Harper Lee\u2019s classic novel to the stage, he realized that the character Atticus Finch was an apologist for racists, likening it to modern liberals that are apologists for Trump supporters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUpon reading the novel again, it struck that throughout the novel, Atticus is an apologist for racists. Throughout,\u201d he said. \u201cHis whole thing about you have to walk a mile in someone\u2019s else\u2019s shoes. You really have to get inside someon\u2019s skin and crawl around before you can really understand them. That was a way of excusing Bob Ewell. \u2018Well, you got to understand, he lost his WPA job, and that really brings a man down.\u2019 He excuses his neighbor, Mrs. Henry Dubose. A terrible racist. \u2018Well you got to understand, she stopped taking her pain medication, her morphine, that makes people a little crazy.\u2019 He excuses the whole South.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sorkin said that this reflection helped him to realize that liberals were being apologists about the tens of millions of people supporting Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll you had to do, Mike, was look around. We were all saying the same thing about the tens of millions of people supporting Donald Trump,\u201d he said. \u201cI don\u2019t get it. Yeah, we\u2019ve always disagreed, all of us here in America. But we all have eyes and ears, right? We\u2019re looking at the same person. What are you talking about?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Michael Moore agreed that Trump supporters were all-around bad people and that reaching across the aisle was a fool\u2019s errand.<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ep. 179: Aaron Sorkin In Conversation with Michael Moore  | Rumble with Michael Moore podcast\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZT5h2ubzZzU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>Since the election of President Trump, Aaron Sorkin has not once responded charitably to the people who supported President Trump. In 2016, shortly after Trump\u2019s upset against Hillary Clinton, he described it as a win for the Ku Klux Klan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, the world changed last night in a way I couldn\u2019t protect us from,\u201d he wrote in an open letter to his daughter and wife. \u201cI won\u2019t sugarcoat it \u2013 this is truly horrible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s hardly the first time my candidate didn\u2019t win (in fact it\u2019s the sixth time) but it is the first time a thoroughly incompetent pig with dangerous ideas, a serious psychiatric disorder, no knowledge of the world and no curiosity to learn has,\u201d Sorkin wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe [Ku Klux] Klan won last night,\u201d he continued. \u201cWhite nationalists. Sexists, racists and buffoons. Angry young white men who think rap music and Cinco de Mayo are a threat to their way of life (or are the reason for their way of life) have been given cause to celebrate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/destroying-icon-hollywood-puts-leftist-spin-kill-hank-berrien\">DESTROYING AN ICON: Hollywood Puts Leftist Spin On \u2018To Kill A Mockingbird\u2019 For&nbsp;Broadway<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Hollywood screenwriter Aaron Sorkin, whose recent iteration of \u201cTo Kill A Mockingbird\u201d completely alters the character Atticus Finch to fit a modern progressive narrative, Trump supporters are unworthy &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2311816,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-784.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Aaron Sorkin: Tolerating Trump Supporters Like Tolerating Racists","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-396777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-784.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Aaron Sorkin: Tolerating Trump Supporters Like Tolerating Racists","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2311816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}