It seems like a good day to look at a time when Roseanne wasn't a right wing icon:
The crotch grab and spit at the end was a nice touch.
She's always been controversial. But at some point it shifted into winuttery, conspiracy theories and grotesque bigotry. The network knew it when they hired her. It was a feature not a bug --- they wanted Trump's bigot following. In the long run it wasn't worth it.
It remains to be seen if the United States will come to the same conclusion.
