Carroll O’Connor was a big lib, as well.
For all his liberal views, Carroll O’Connor concealed them well playing Archie Bunker & created an unintendedly sympathetic character that audiences laughed with, not at.
O’Connor was a gentleman intellectual compared to the execrable Meathead Reiner.
I just liked Archie’s lack of PC. In the early 70’s I wasn’t aware of libs like today. Our Senator was a democrat, Scoop Jackson, who seemed a decent enough guy.