Donald Trump is the drunk uncle of the U.S., the real-life manifestation of Archie Bunker, a CNN host said Friday.
Laura Coates appeared on Real Time with Bill Maher to discuss politics as well as the death of 'All in the Family' creator Norman Lear. Bringing the two together, Coates took a conversation about Archie Bunker to a new level.
"Archie Bunker is not really in the rearview mirror. Archie Bunker is the bit for the drunk uncle today," she said. "We're talking about Donald Trump... we're talking about people who feel discounted, who associate liberalism with what you described," Coates said to writer Walter Kirn. Kirn had just spoken about how that show introduced him to what a "liberal" was by depicting a freeloader.
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Coates added that there's still "very much of a face of an Archie Bunker," but that people are seeing it in everyday representations in the real world, as opposed to in fiction alone.
When asked by Maher if there were more "Archie Bunkers" in the 1970s than there are now, Coates simply replied, "No," and said people like that feel more emboldened now than ever.
