Season Four, Governor Richie

We just happen to be watching Season Four this past week, and more and more, I'm having the following thoughts. Is it just me, or does the entire description of Richie's basic unseriousness, lack of critical thinking, manipulativeness, pandering to the lowest common denominator, and gliding along on the grease of low expectations, sound like anyone from our present time? When the staff talks about how unthinkable the idea of this candidate actually becoming president and having to face the complex situations that Bartlet is negotiating, it's like the writers saw into the future. Only the future (our present), is even more unthinkable.

Edit: I get that the analogy at the time was Bush, but they give Richie a little mean/manipulative edge which seems less Bush-like and more Trump-like.