Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan was her running mate, prior to their - surprise - falling out. When she lost, she ran instead on the Peace and Freedom Party ticket. She supported Occupy Wall Street and competed with Jill Stein for the 2012 Green Party nomination. Bush’s Enron and Arthur Andersen friends, prior to destroying the entire economy. She maintained that 9/11 was “an inside Bush job,” perpetrated to destroy the records of George W. She was a kook long before Trump ran for president. Her wild ramblings don’t tell us anything about what Trump voters think, about the state of race relations in America, or working-class culture.
She shares much more in common with a celebrity culture that never lacks for its share of nuts and toxic personalities, especially among comedians, than with, say, Youngstown, Ohio.
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Nothing more perfectly encapsulates the dynamic of the Trump era than a TV show that was supposed to be a sympathetic portrayal of Trump supporters by liberal America leading - once again - to the ritualistic denunciation of Trump supporters by liberal America.īarr is not a typical Trump voter just because she played one on TV. Given the political freight piled atop the hit revival of her TV program, it was inevitable that Barr’s spectacular Twitter flameout would be interpreted as a portentous statement on President Trump’s America.Ĭhris Hayes of MSNBC says that Barr’s “problem turned out to be that she far too authentically represented the actual worldview of a significant chunk of the Trump base.” Roxane Gay in The New York Times wrote a piece headlined, “‘ Roseanne’ Is Gone, but the Culture That Gave Her a Show Isn’t.”Īctivist Michaela Angela Davis said on CNN that Trump had enabled Barr - a common theme on the left - and then went all the way: Asked point blank if all Trump voters are racist, she said, “Yes.”
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