They've struggled with it off and on during the entire run of The West Wing. Cliff and Ainsley were pretty decent characters, and the occasional decent Republican continues to pop up even now. However, Season Two is far and away the best season the show ever did, and one of the best television dramas to ever have aired on American tv, so it's very worth watching.
Mild Spoilers for the Last Two Seasons:
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Matthew Perry has or might still be recurring as a moderate Republican working in the White House. Last season, they nominated a strict-intepretationist to the Supreme Court who was also a thoroughly likeable character. Speaker of the House Walken was also an admirable character, although his successor, Haffley, had been a total dickhead.
Notably, Alan Alda is playing the presumptive Republican nominee this year, and we're told that the reason he is going to be so difficult to beat is that he's a very likeable moderate. And curiously enough, the Democratic ticket is, at the moment, extremely unlikeable. Leading to the question of what happens to the other characters if Alan Alda should win, or if the show would even consider a Republican in the Oval.
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It's fair to say, though, that for every 'decent' Republican, there's been another 20 who suck.
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Mild Spoilers for the Last Two Seasons:
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Matthew Perry has or might still be recurring as a moderate Republican working in the White House. Last season, they nominated a strict-intepretationist to the Supreme Court who was also a thoroughly likeable character. Speaker of the House Walken was also an admirable character, although his successor, Haffley, had been a total dickhead.
Notably, Alan Alda is playing the presumptive Republican nominee this year, and we're told that the reason he is going to be so difficult to beat is that he's a very likeable moderate. And curiously enough, the Democratic ticket is, at the moment, extremely unlikeable. Leading to the question of what happens to the other characters if Alan Alda should win, or if the show would even consider a Republican in the Oval.
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It's fair to say, though, that for every 'decent' Republican, there's been another 20 who suck.