Roseanne's Surprising Reason She Supports Trump Is From 'Who He Set Free'
This week some 18.3 million Americans chose to tune in to watch the reboot of the 90s
sitcom Roseanne.
To put that number into perspective, it may help to know that more people tuned in to
watch the new Roseanne than tuned in to watch the farewell episode of the original show
when it originally aired in 1997.
Remember 1997 was back when people still watched network television on a regular basis, back
before widespread social media use or the prevalence of the internet, yet the reboot
of this same show blew those 90s numbers away.
The debut of the show reboot aired back-to-back episodes on March 27, 2018, scoring a 5.1
rating in the key demographic of adults age 18-49.
The Tuesday night two-episode revival of Roseanne launched with the same emotional flare that
made the original Conner family working-class comedy a 90s cult classic, updated for the
millennial age and set in the Trump era.
Those numbers mean something and should speak loudly to top decision makers as they represent
the size of the potential threat to their bottom line should they choose to ignore them,
as well as the size of the potential profits should they choose to pay attention and meet
them head-on.
It is no secret that Hollywood holds President Donald Trump in abject contempt.
As a result, these top decision-makers have been making content for and by people who
share their opinions of loathing and contempt.
Yet the new Roseanne should be a much-needed wake-up call.
As TableMag.com puts it "there is a large audience of Americans who are sick of sneering,
condescending, authoritarian right-think that pounds away at the thought-crimes of people
who work their asses off and send their kids off to wars while falling further and further
behind on their car and mortgage payments."
The show shows Roseanne Barr reuniting with her on-screen husband Dan played by John Goodman.
The pair face new challenges as a working-class family in middle America as their unemployed
daughter Darlene played by Sara Gilbert moves back home with her two children, along with
the recently widowed older daughter, Becky, played by Alicia Goranson.
Roseanne and her on-screen sister Jackie played by Laurie Metcalf, clash over the election
of Donald Trump to the presidency."He talked about jobs, Jackie!"
Roseanne says to her "Nasty Woman" T-shirt-clad sister, who vocally supported Hillary Clinton
but walked into the booth and voted for Green Party candidate Jill Stein.
"He said he'd shake things up!
I mean, this might come as a complete shock to you, but we almost lost our house, the
way things are going."
Moments later, just before the family eats dinner, Roseanne says a prayer — she asks
Jackie, "Would you like to take a knee?" — in which she thanks God for her son D.J.'s
(Michael Fishman) safe return home from his military service in Syria and "most of all
Lord, thank you, for making America great again."
Barr, the namesake of both versions of the sitcom, agrees and offered some words of praise
for President Trump on Twitter Friday evening.
Barr tweeted – "President Trump has freed so many children held in bondage to pimps
all over this world.
Hundreds each month.
He has broken up trafficking rings in high places everywhere.
notice that.
I disagree on some things, but give him benefit of doubt-4 now."Barr posted the article
mentioned above from TableMag.com discussing the reboot of her show and the tweets were
related to the discussion that followed regarding her show and its relation to President Trump.
The series of tweets followed a proclamation issued by the White House issued by the White
House on Friday declaring the month of April to be "National Sexual Assault Awareness
and Prevention Month."
The Trump administration stated in the formal announcement – "We remain steadfast in
our efforts to stop crimes of sexual violence, provide care for victims, enforce the law,
prosecute offenders, and raise awareness about the many forms of sexual assault.
We must continue our work to eliminate sexual assault from our society and promote safe
relationships, homes, and communities."
TableMag.com goes on to state –
"Roseanne is the first decent argument that Donald Trump has had in the culture business
since he got elected.
It's even more powerful coming from a comedian like Roseanne who, bless her soul, may be
the single most important feminist symbol in America, relevant because she belongs not
to the moneyed and privileged chattering vanguards but to the working class.
Roseanne herself knows Trump and appears to personally dislike him.
But she's given him this arguably undeserved gift because she also agrees with him on several
key issues, like trade and political correctness.
She also understands that Trump plugs in to the frustrations of millions of Americans
who've been getting shafted for nearly three decades now with neither Democrats nor traditional
Republicans doing much to help them out.
Almost for certain, the success of the new season of Roseanne will lead many bien pensants
to call the comedian a crackpot or worse.
But Roseanne needed just one night to remind us of why she's the single most popular
television star in America, or maybe the most popular woman in America.
Good luck to those who will now try to turn a legitimate working-class white feminist
hero into Putin's handmaiden, or a racist crank.
Roseanne's success sends yet another reminder, as if the travesty of last November wasn't
enough, that most Americans will reward anyone who merely takes the time and the trouble
to acknowledge that they exist."Barr herself stated it was important to her "to have
that dialogue about families torn apart by the election and their political differences
of opinion and how we handle it.
I thought that this was an important thing to say at this time."
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