Clinton herself blessed the association, filming a video with Poehler where she asked what kind of president Leslie Knope would be.
According to Vox, “Democrats’ not-so-secret-closing argument” was that “Hillary Clinton is Leslie Knope.” The show was even used to excuse Clinton’s botched attempt to cover up her pneumonia, which Salon dubbed her “Leslie Knope moment.” Mike Schur, co-creator of the series and likely author of the post-election war cry against Trump, said in the summer of 2016 that Leslie would be out “campaigning like a mofo” for the Democrats. “he only sensible way to look at the US election is through the prism of Parks And Recreation,” wrote Hadley Freeman in the Guardian. In 2016, comparisons between the two became a staple of liberal punditry. She’s mentioned by name around the one-minute mark of the first episode, and her picture is prominently displayed in Leslie’s office. A ferociously competent public servant, Leslie slept four hours a night and devoted the rest of her time to figuring out how to make her hometown a slightly better place, with the help of a cast of future stars that included Aziz Ansari (the greedy but lovable Tom Haverford), Chris Pratt (the goofy but lovable Andy Dwyer), and Nick Offerman (the libertarian but lovable Ron Swanson).īefore Parks and Rec debuted in the spring of 2009, Poehler had been best known for her role on Saturday Night Live portraying Hillary Clinton, and the show alluded to the president-in-waiting throughout its run. Leslie, played by Amy Poehler, was the focus of the series.
The show centered on a handful of bureaucrats at the parks department in the fictional town of Pawnee, Indiana. She was a character in Parks and Recreation- Parks and Rec, to its fans-a critically acclaimed NBC sitcom that aired its final episode in 2015. “Today, and tomorrow, and every day until the next election, I reject and fight that story.”Įxcept “Leslie Knope” wasn’t a real person. “I reject out of hand the notion that we have thrown up our hands and succumbed to racism, xenophobia, misogyny, and crypto-fascism,” she declared. Like many of the essays that took over Blue America’s collective social media feed in the aftermath of Donald Trump’s victory, the piece asked readers to join what would soon be called the Resistance. Two days after the 2016 election, an article from Leslie Knope went viral. “In the first season, the Parks and Rec writers had played the idea of a Leslie Knope presidency for laughs six years later, it had turned into a prophecy.” (NBC) On the dead-end optimism of Parks and Recreation.
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