You can pull up ANY old Archie Bunker youtube clip and you will laugh ... and nod a tacit approval to his logic ... and mourn his passing from the American TV scene.
Archie's appeal was; he was everyman and he got it, as an everyman
Although Carol O’Connor was a hard-core lib.
True that.
Even though Norman Lear was basically poking fun at what he perceived as middle America, people related to the “everyman working Joe” Archie versus the Meathead counterculture imagery. It’s why that show worked so well.