It is infuriating. I mean, wow.
Not sure if you can say this stuff started with the Smothers Brothers, or maybe All in the Family and that lefty Norman Lear. But I firmly believe this left wing bent in the popular culture has had a major impact on how people view the parties and ideologies. I don’t know what could have been done to change things though, short of censorship, and we don’t want that. But this portrayal through the decades of conservatives as mostly rich, white, elitist, insensitive warmongers has been a plague. I think it is the influence of the popular media that has kept Democrats on the offensive. Conservatives who think this has no effect on how people think and vote are mistaken, IMHO.