you can’t replicate the power structures of asoiaf within American politics so it just has to all be based on vibes. Cersei Lannister (R-CA) problematic house backbencher oversight vice chair who is doing crazy watergate shit on committee to get her evil senate majority leader dad to notice her. Tyrion former youngest ever Orange County commissioner turns down a very promising gubernatorial campaign to go be the chief of staff at the White House because his dad asked him to and it fucking sucks so bad. Stannis (I-MI) is a libertarian but caucuses with Democrats in the Senate because he’s mad Robert made Renly Jack Schlossberg AG despite him being like 25. They find gold bars in littlefinger’s closet but insider trading is just a hobby. The starks are moderate Minnesotans except for jonsnow who might pivot and become an ecoterrorist. Rhaegar did Chappaquiddick. Jaime plays for the Los Angeles Lakers until an otherwise career ending injury forces him to play for the Wizards.
Bloodraven (D-VA) was a dixiecrat but historians often downplay this part of his early senatorial career to emphasize his controversial and prolific foreign policy record as Secretary of State and later return to the senate for the last thirty years of his life as an inexplicably woke langley environmentalist technocrat. His presence on the Maekar tapes validating and participating in all of Maekar’s delusional and paranoid batshit governing decisions is a matter or significant debate. Baelor Breakspear dies in a plane crash shortly after receiving the Dem nomination for president, leaving many to speculate about a family curse. Bittersteel is a part of the other Byrd organization and goes down with the ship. Danelle Lothston runs a Charles Manson cult out of West Virginia.
