“A&E thought they’d broadcast DD thinking that the audience would be effeminate leftists poking fun at them...”
So then, A&E has made the same mistake with DD that Norman Lear made forty years earlier with “All In The Family” when he discovered to his horror that the audience wasn’t laughing AT Archie Bunker, they were laughing WITH him.
Interesting!
Yes, and Norman Lear had created a Frankenstein's monster.
He now had a working class hero in Archie, who was ironically played by a total pinko, Carroll O'Connor.
O'Connor has expressed his initial "horror" that his character was so "liked". But once the bucks started rolling in, Lear and O'Connor "clammed up", as Archie would say.
Liberals love nothing more in this world than money.
If they have to give the "rubes" what they want, they'll do it.
O'Connor eventually TRIED to soften Archie's hard-nosed "bigotry" in about season 6. All in the Family soon began to decline. Very few laughs after Meathead and Gloria moved to LA.