Roseanne’s white working-class populism seems somehow suspended in time. Set for a revival on ABC this spring, the hit 1988–1997 sitcom sat, politically, somewhere alongside Dolly Parton’s 9 to 5 and Odd Jobs and Bruce Springsteen’s entire discography. In the late 1980s it wasn’t impossible to imagine some combination of Springsteen, Barr, and Parton galvanizing the white working class toward solidaristic ends, within the confines of something like Jesse Jackson’s multiracial Rainbow Coalition.

History took another course. As Roseanne Barr has argued in press junkets for the upcoming tenth season, members of her fictional exurban Illinois family on the show, the Conners, might well have voted for Donald Trump in 2016 — as Barr proudly did.

So what are we to make of Roseanne and Roseanne in 2018, the beloved working-class heroine turned Trump supporter?