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with the GOP nominating a Senator for California ( Alan Alda's character ) versus the Democratic House member from Texas ( Matthew Santos ) do things seem to diverge from our current time so dramatically. In that world, the GOP wasn't completely crazy, the religious nutz had yet to take over the GOP...

Not to mention GOP Senator in CA ( LOL )

Otherwise there are a lot of parallels where the writers take a lot of themes from 1999 - 2004 era and we "history rhymes" in 2024, including the GAZA trip. But the subsequent Camp David episode where Leo has the heart attack and Bartlett puts American soldiers as peacekeepers into Gaza... and everyone walks away with a two state solution and an agreement on Jerusalem... that would never happen now.

I own the series... it is the only bit of sanity that got me through Shrub and Trump ( 12 years of misery ). I think I binged watched it like 4 or 5 times total.