I wasn’t a real fan of the show, but I understand that the makers of The West Wing tried to make Jed Bartlet an unrealistically hawkish Democrat in these MoveOn times. Still, I have to stare at Martin Sheen claiming he, as in “we,” floated in the political middle:
“We were a fantasy but we had a parallel universe to reality,” he continued. That changed radically, he said, when the Bush administration came into office and then 9/11 happened and “the country moved much further away from the center and we felt we were dead in the center and we gave everyone a fair shot.”