Seriously? Have they NOT been paying attention to the NFL?
If the fans of Roseanne feel they're being played by liberal SJWs, they will walk away from any recast without Roseanne Barr. She's becoming OUR Colin Kaepernick.
There are three ways out of this:
1. Status Quo. Roseanne, as a show is over, and Barr as a comedienne can join Michael Richards in exile.
2. Barr can go on a counter-offensive and try to convince ABC that she was a victim of uncontrollable side-effects of taking Ambien. The company that makes Ambien has already weighed in, but there is a body of testimonials, including Democrat Congressman Patrick Kennedy (who got a pass), that suggests that people do behave atypically in some cases. Any compromise that restores Roseanne would have to include some type of personal monitoring of Barr, possibly including random drug tests (punitively, of course), but she might be willing to endure this to support those on the show who need the job.
3. The show tries to go on without the eponymous Barr, in which case the pro-Trump fan base will give ABC the NFL treatment.
It's in the best interests of everyone involved to try to make option #2 work.
-PJ
p.s. Does anybody remember Comedy Central's short-lived 2001 alleged sitcom That's My Bush?
-PJ