Political morality vs. political calculation — Josh's cold political calculus over the rescue's electoral upside provokes Leo's public moral rebuke and opens an intra‑administration clash about priorities, honor, and the line between policy and opportu...
Political morality vs. political calculation — Josh's cold political calculus over the rescue's electoral upside provokes Leo's public moral rebuke and opens an intra‑administration clash about priorities, honor, and the line between policy and opportunism.
Events in This Arc
On Rock Creek Parkway, while casually jogging toward the Lincoln Memorial, Josh pulls Vice President Hoynes into a blunt, private reckoning. What begins as a policy lecture on corporate soft …
Josh arrives in Leo's office pushing the political upside of rescuing downed pilot Scott Hutchins. Leo violently rebukes him — not for politics, but for the human cruelty of treating …