Please read this as the compliment with which it is written: American politics have never felt cozier than in the halls of NBC’s “The West Wing.”
Whereas most Americans today are rightfully cold and jaded about the democratic process, on Sept. 22, 1999, when Aaron Sorkin premiered his fast-talking take on the inner workings of the White House, there was a genuine curiosity about how government worked. For a moment in time, Americans were getting weekly –– often far-fetched, but better than nothing –– lessons in politics and history from the administration of President Jed Bartlet
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