Slightly OT: Cold War Continuation Sci-Fi

[Olefin]

Amerika had to be one of the stupider mini-series I have ever seen - a US govt that meekly submits to the Soviets after an EMP attack that knocks out all communications when the US has multiple backup systems that arent EMP affected and thus we surrender when our subs and overseas forces are completely unaffected (as are the nukes which wouldnt have been affected by an EMP attack)?

And at the end the guy trying to bring the US back together gets shot and never delivers his speech because somehow breaking up the US into little nation states is the better idea?

Give me a break