Rob Reiner On Election 2016: “We Are Living ‘All In The Family'”

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Back in the 1970s, Reiner gained fame on the television show “All in the Family” as Michael Stivic, the liberal son-in-law of the decidedly bigoted Archie Bunker. He told me that people are always asking him whether a show like that could be done today. What does he tell them? “We are doing it! We’re doing it every day with Donald Trump running for president! He’s Archie Bunker,” Reiner said. “They’re both from Queens. … They both have these misogynistic, racist points of view. And they spout them.” Does that mean all of Trump’s supporters are racist? “Of course, they’re not all racist,” Reiner said. “That’s ridiculous. … But that doesn’t mean there isn’t a big strain of racism … in his constituency, and he knows it.”

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