Designated Survivor
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Karma's not a bitch. She's a freaking queen.
Isabel
Tom: Moss wanted to be president again. He knew in a three-way race the Democrats would run to the Left. I'd stay in the center. That left him with what?
Louden: The Right.
Tom: So he rebranded himself a hardline conservative. Surrounded himself with bigoted zealots like Detwiler and Brunton. He didn't believe in their nativist bullshit. But he knew that the hardline conservatives would vote in a block, and in a three-way race that might be enough to win.
You learn pretty quickly that politics doesn't run on reason, it runs on emotion. People vote their instincts and backfill arguments to fit them.
Tom
Tom: I know I'm sounding undemocratic here, but how democratic is this country really with electoral college gerrymandering districts...?
Louden: Isn't that straying a little bit into self-justification? Isn't it simpler that as president you just thought you knew better?
Mom would've been really proud.
Penny
Isabel: I can't be with you. I'm sorry. And it's not because of the infidelity. It's something deeper. Something that's always nagged at me under the surface. You never took me seriously.
Aaron: Isi, you can't say that--
Isabel: I don't mean as a romantic partner. I mean as a colleague. Someone substantial and considerable. You making VP now will only make that worse.
Troy: Is it cool?
Dontae: Fuck it. We won.
Emily: You're a monster.
Lorraine: I know what I am. I'm someone who wins. What the fuck are you?
They say a presidential campaign is like an X-ray into your soul. Is this just something I did? Or is this who I am now? Next time I give a speech, will there be some corner of my mind whispering "you are so full of shit?"
Tom
