Hey! I’m an over 60 asshole who adores Archie Bunker. I sure as hell ain’t a MAGA guy. I’m pretty far from being a MAGA as I see Trump as an existential threat to the American Tradition of Government. Trump isn’t a problem solver. He creates problems.
Also, Archie was a good man who just wasn’t brought up that his words could be hateful and hurtful. Archie was a product of his time and historical events. He was raised and worked most of his life in white working class neighborhood. He had to drop out of school to get a job to help the family when he was a teenager. He then served in the war, went home, got married to a simple working class traditional housewife and worked a working class job and raised his small family. In the 1970’s his world took a big change when whites started leaving and people of color moved in. Archie was out of his depths and made many hilarious mistakes but, as we saw throughout the series, Archie learned from his mistakes, learned, adapted and grew in his character.
Do you think these clowns could even come close to his moral courage to change as he did at his age?
There’s no way in hell they would. Now get off my lawn. ;-)