Rob Lowe wants Bernie Sanders to dial down his rhetoric – and so, probably, does Sam Seaborn, Lowe's character on the critically-acclaimed television drama "The West Wing."

Lowe took to Twitter Sunday to decry Sanders's tone as he discussed taxing the wealthy:



Watching Bernie Sanders. He's hectoring and yelling at me WHILE he's saying he's going to raise our taxes. Interesting way to communicate. — Rob Lowe (@RobLowe) January 26, 2016

A fan of "The West Wing" asked Lowe what Seaborn–an idealistic, liberal deputy White House communications director–would think of Sanders's incendiary language. Lowe responded:



To support his point, Lowe posted a clip of his character speaking to Democratic constituents about raising taxes for well-off Americans in an eerie example of life imitating art:



Attention Sen. Sanders. Sam Seaborn on Taxes - YouTube https://t.co/311bWHHTOV — Rob Lowe (@RobLowe) January 26, 2016

"I paid 27 times the national average in income taxes. I paid my fair share, and the fair share of 26 other people," Seaborn explains to a room of fellow Democrats. "And I'm happy to, because that's the only way it's going to work, and it's in my best interest that everybody be able to go to schools and drive on roads, but I don't get 27 votes on Election Day."