The West Wing provides much-needed optimism after a hard election

When I graduated from college in 2007, the country was preparing for a major election. President George W. Bush had reached the end of his two terms. The Great Recession had begun to unfurl. It was in this environment that a colleague recommended I pick up The West Wing.I had been binge-watching TV before there was a term for that level of engagement, and I quickly sank into Aaron Sorkin’s show about the inner workings of the people who run the White House. It’s a particularly addict