Oscar-winning writer Aaron Sorkin, the wordsmith of TV series The West Wing and The Newsroom. While Sorkin is distraught about Trump’s win, he used his writing ability to pen a lengthy letter in Vanity Fair to his 15-year-old daughter Roxy and her mother, Julia Sorkin.
He calls president-elect Trump “a thoroughly incompetent pig with dangerous ideas, a serious psychiatric disorder, no knowledge of the world and no curiosity to learn” in the letter to the women in his life.
He acknowledges that the Nov. 8 election results are “truly horrible,” and encourages his “Sorkin girls” to “fight injustice” whenever they encounter it; he laments Trump’s supporters — especially men — and their celebration over the election results.
“[The Ku Klux Klan], white 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… men who have no right to call themselves that and who think women who aspire to more than looking hot are shrill, ugly and otherwise worthy of our scorn rather than our admiration. First of all, we remember that we’re not alone. A hundred million people in America and a billion more around the world feel exactly the same way we do. Second, we get out of bed. The Trumpsters want to see people like us (Jewish, ‘coastal elites,’ educated, socially progressive, Hollywood…) sobbing and wailing and talking about moving to Canada. I won’t give them that and neither will you. Here’s what we’ll do… we’ll f**king fight . (Roxy, there’s a time for this kind of language and it’s now.) We’re not powerless and we’re not voiceless. Our family is fairly insulated from the effects of a Trump presidency so we fight for the families that aren’t. We fight for a woman to keep her right to choose. We fight for the first amendment and we fight mostly for equality — not for a guarantee of equal outcomes but for equal opportunities. We stand up.” Cont.
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