That was the perfect example of one thing The West Wing did wrong. It assumed that being obviously, overwhelmingly right was enough to win an argument, or at least shut down your opponents.*

This is wrong for two reasons: 1) Die-hard members of the Ignorant Tightass Club will have ready answers to all the obvious objections. (The answers will be bullshit, but when has that ever stopped them?) 2) Even if they don't have answers, they'll power through anyway.



* Progressives keep making this mistake to this day.