The West Wing and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.

so has "The Apprentice" and literally every other reality TV show, but *especially* "Cops" and that one.

"Yes, I invited Marjorie Taylor Green to be the Secretary of Education...but now she's going to sing The Jackal for everyone!"

Nobody asked me but I disliked West Wing for the same reason I disliked later seasons of Law & Order It's all naive affluent boomer liberal wish fulfilment about higher ideals and the triumph of 'good,' with no awareness of realpolitik or power struggles It's Doonesbury without any good jokes

I have never watched The West Wing and the more I hear about it, I'm becoming increasingly convinced that I dodged a bullet on that one.

Political sorkinism is suicide by a trillion good faith papercuts