DiPietro said that while the book was written in the early 1920s, it was prescient in how it satirized politics and populism.

Source: https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/entertainment/theater/story/2023-11-05/matthew-broderick-is-the-american-everyman-in-la-jolla-playhouses-babbitt

SALEM, Ore. — Oregon has long been seen as a quirky state whose main city was satirized in a TV comedy, where rugged country folk and urban hipsters could get along and political differences could be settled over a pint or two of craft beer.

Source: https://www.columbian.com/news/2023/may/20/end-of-an-era-gop-walkout-shows-political-chasm-where-the-oregon-way-once-meant-bipartisan-trust/