Twenty-five years ago, Aaron Sorkin and a cast and writers room of true-believing Clinton-era Democrats set out to create a technocratic fairy tale in which progressive values win the day by sheer virtue of their irresistibility. What happened next is enough to defy belief. Despite themselves, they made a masterpiece.
Whatever its ratings success, there has been a critical reevaluation of The West Wing of late, especially on the Right. That’s because, for a certain kind of liberal, the Sorkin-created network …