Aaron Sorkin has ideas for a reboot of The West Wing

It seems like we’ve been crying out for a new series of The West Wing ever since the original series ended in 2006, but never more so than in 2017, when American politics seems to be at its most maddening.

We’re not sure whether we’d want a new series to tap into that or to simply offer us some escapism, but the show’s creator Aaron Sorkin has revealed that he has some ideas about how it could come back.

“Sterling K. Brown as the president, and there’s some kind of jam, an emergency, a very delicate situation involving the threat of war or something, and [President] Bartlet [played by Martin Sheen], long since retired, is consulted in the way that Bill Clinton used to consult with Nixon,” Sorkin told The Hollywood Reporter.

But where Bartlet fits in with Sorkin’s vision, the rest of the beloved cast, including Bradley Whitford, Allison Janney and Richard Schiff, don’t.

But perhaps that’s for the best, if the show were to come off. Do we really want a Fuller House version of The West Wing?

Although, having said that, is The West Wing even The West Wing without Deputy Chief of Staff Josh Lyman’s lopsided walk?

Fortunately for Sorkin, however, his preferred president, Brown appears ready to serve at his pleasure. He retweeted the report, adding “#AaronSorkin if you are serious, sir, I would be honored!”

We’re personally very here for it, as long as there are a few shots of President Brown singing around the Oval Office.

At least if we must endure insanity in The White House in real life, we wouldn’t have to on TV. Sorkin dismissed the idea of a West Wing where Donald Trump was in charge, implying that it would lack depth as he added, “Trump is exactly what he looks like: a really dumb guy with an observable psychiatric disorder.”

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Perhaps a new version of The West Wing would help us all, the president included. After all, why be yourself when you can be Jed Bartlet?