How Leslie Knope, and Amy Poehler, changed their minds about Trump

Days after the 2016 election, Amy Poehler wrote a letter to America as Leslie Knope, the indefatigable protagonist of “Parks and Recreation.” Back then, her letter was a condolence for the election of a metaphorical “giant farting T. rex.”

“I understand, intellectually, that he won the election. But I do not accept that our country has descended into the hatred-swirled slop pile that he lives in,” she wrote for Vox. “We figure out how to fight back, and do good in this infuriating world that constantly wants to bend toward the bad.”