The Sopranos Is the Perfect Show to Help Us Understand the Trump Era

Tony Soprano is a bully with a deep distrust of the FBI — just like our current president

David Litt
GEN
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7 min readJun 21, 2019

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HHe’s a swaggering, narcissistic bully whose waistline balloons as the pressure builds. He’s racist, sexist, and chauvinist — but saves his harshest words for the FBI. He inherits his father’s sketchy…

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David Litt
GEN
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Former Obama speechwriter and winner of Top Chef fantasy league. NYT bestselling author. My new book is DEMOCRACY IN ONE BOOK OR LESS.