#at will for leaving at andy for not marrying him at cj sometimes im sure and at sam for leaving

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for all that the west wing makes it blatantly clear that like josh and toby and leo are all obsessed with loyalty, and for josh and leo specifically loyalty to jed, i just think its interesting that cj is the one who actually stays

#tww #the west wing #cj cregg #my post #god anyways i love her so much #you could in a lot of ways say the same about charlie but you can also argue that his loyalty shifted to cj #like... cj who was one of the last to join the campaign iirc... who toby got to come on... who argued constantly about being kept out of #the loop... who didnt know what the hell to do when taking the chief of staff job #and the rest of them all leave.... im not criticizing them for that! but like. we have leo talking about jed being his guy #we have leo being criticized for being too close to jed to be objective and leo doing anything for jed and his legacy #and abbey saying leo would kill himself for jed... we have 'josh doesnt leave people' and 'you serve the issues by serving the man' #and like. literally anything he says to amy ever about loyalty and 'you would do anything to not disappoint leo' #and we have the way toby is so angry at anyone who doesnt show this loyalty #at will for leaving at andy for not marrying him at cj sometimes im sure and at sam for leaving #(his is the least obvious but i have been thinking about him lately) #and josh leaves to find his guy and leo leaves to serve his country and his party when they need him (because jed doesnt anymore??) #and toby literally commits treason (which yk a part of me sees more as a betrayal to cj than to the president... hes her friend and #he got her into this and shes alone bc theyve all left and the president is sick and abbey and her cant agree when they have to have #opposing priorities on this (which i think is also really painful for cj) and hes all she has and she trusts him and tells him #and then he leaks it... he lets her be the main suspect for weeks... its loyalty again in a way when he does turn himself in #when he never tells them it was her #(and oh boy i also have some andy related thoughts on this... cj having to go through this opposing priorities with people she cares about #bc what she wants for andy and what she needs for the administration are different things) #but he still did betray her trust) #and cj's just left to try to make the most of this administration as everything falls apart. and she had people #she has will and kate and charlie and margaret and i dont want to lessen that at all #but its not the same! #s7 (and s6 honestly) is so distinctly like painful for cj #oof these tags got long