He is very goods so he is extremely dangerous. If you look at the issues as they arise in the course of the years of the West Wing, which paralleled the Clinton administration, one sees after a few programs that Sorkin resorts to two techniques.
First, he personalizes the issue and makes us root for the side of the issue he favors because we instinctively root for the person he creates. He creates a sympathetic character to fit his politics. Second, if the facts of the issue do not fit, he simply reverses the facts so that the Democrats are shown to be on the sympathetic side and the Republicans are depicted to be knuckle draggers.
Sorkin is especially dangerous and consciously evil when he gratuitously assaults Christian values and Christian individuals. It is rare that he will show a Protestant Christian in a good light. He will depict a Catholic priest fairly and he will exert great time and effort to show rabbis to be wise, compassionate and intelligent. But Protestants are fair game and open to a rant by the President of the United States that humiliates Protestant Christians to their faces in the White House, for example.
The ratings of the show indisputably demonstrate Sorkin's ability as a craftsman. However, he is not to be admired but to be despised and sometimes feared
