First, lest you think I am more erudite than I am, I didn’t know the meaning of the word prelapsarian when I heard it on a season three epsisode of the excellent NetFlix show starring and produced by Keri Russell (of The Americans).
The British Prime Minister Nicol Trowbridge was talking to his Foreign Minister, Austin Dennison, who he hated. I can’t find the exact line but the PM was talking about having to put aside their past animosity of prelapsairan times.
All this has nothing to do with Trump except to say that we’d be lucky to have someone like Trowbridge as our president. For that matter, if you’re familiar with the show, there are at least six other characters who I’d trade in an instant for Trump. For fans of the show I include Grace Penn and William Rayburn. I don’t want to give a spoiler (especially for season three). If you are reading this and haven’t seen the show I reommend you do. If, like us you watched seasons one and two and you forgot lots of the plot I suggest you start at the beginning.
“The Diplomat” joins a long list of television shows and movies which are about fictional presidents and world leaders who the country, really any country, would be lucky to have.
Here are 15 fictional American presidents in TV and movies. Everyone has their favorite. Mine is Kiefer Sutherland’s Tom Kirkman in “Designated Survivor.” I know lots of people like Martin Sheen’s Jed Bartlet (“The West Wing”) but I enjoyed seeing how the Kirkman character evolved from being an obscure “designated survivor” into a highly capable leader.
Here’s a much longer list from Ranker. It puts Kirkman as number two after Jed Bartlet.
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