When it comes to exaggerating and distorting nonfiction stories with Hollywood pitter-patter for the express purpose of allegorically diagnosing a real-world problem, as in Moneyball and The Social Network, Aaron Sorkin is the most brilliant blowhard money can buy. But when he applies the same technique purely as a means of historical reenactment, with only vague relation to the present day, the brilliance gets dialed down and the blowhard overwhelms. This is lefty politics as pure schlock, like high school…