The Politics of the Roseanne Reboot
Willa Paskin, TV critic for Slate, and Jared Yates Sexton, professor and author, most recently of The People Are Going to Rise Like the Waters Upon Your Shore: A Story of American Rage, talk about whether "Roseanne" has anything meaningful to say about the working class, Trump voters and politics 20 years after its original run, and take your calls on what you've been thinking as you've been watching.
@JYSexton says he thinks the Roseanne reboot has "gone out of its way to sanitize the idea of the Trump voter." And at the very least, he says the Trump voter has to be ok with bigoted policies/worldviews + the show explains it as an economic choice.
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) April 5, 2018
@willapaskin reminds us that some ppl loved "All in the Family" & genuinely loved Archie Bunker, even if that wasn't the intention of the creators. Some people are probably tuning in & loving "Roseanne" because they think she's sticking it to the liberals.
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) April 5, 2018
