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4) Aunt Jackie is an affectionate parody of “smart liberals” and it is frankly spot-on. I find myself wincing a little because I’m aware I’m being poked fun at. But it isn’t a bad feeling! The life coach thing is 100% dead on.

5) I increasingly don’t have a problem with Roseanne Conner the Trump voter. I do have a problem with anybody who is dumb enough to think that liberals don’t know that there are Trump voters who are sweet people who are good to their own.

The WHOLE POINT is that they chose a fantasy of being good to their own over a reality of being bare minimum decent to everybody else. One needn’t utterly efface the other... but also if you’re gonna stick with your own, we gotta do the same, and that may mean repudiating you.

6) I DO have a problem with Roseanne Barr the Trump voter, who is not a Trump voter in the way Roseanne Conner is, but is instead a Trump voter in the way Dave Chappelle, in an alternate universe where Trump didn’t target blacks, might be a Trump voter.

Roseanne Barr is a performative MAGA because she actually IS a deplorable—that is, she is a person who, rather than engage with the ethical claims/demands contemporary times make on her, embraces her (performative, and by inference false) indifference towards those claims/demands

And because she, like Dave Chappelle, is among the idle rich, I have none of the sympathy for these rich comedians that I have for your average hood nigga that loves Dave Chappelle or the WWC folks who identify with Roseanne (if they exist, idk bc I don’t know them).

7) Ultimately, the show offers a perfectly palatable compromise: you can be culturally conservative, and even vote for Trump, as long as when the rubber meets the road in your real life, you show up for the people who are “different” within your family.

And of course, the inference is that you then will vote for, e.g., Bernie Sanders: louder about economic justice, more, um... a softer touch when it comes to social justice (to be almost absurdly generous).