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Aaron Sorkin: Tolerating Trump Supporters Like Tolerating Racists

Paul Bois
Aaron Sorkin: Tolerating Trump Supporters Like Tolerating Racists
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According to Hollywood screenwriter Aaron Sorkin, whose recent iteration of “To Kill A Mockingbird” completely alters the character 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.

Appearing on left-wing filmmaker Michael Moore’s podcast, the Oscar-winning writer of “The Social Network” said that when adapting Harper Lee’s 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.

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