The second half of the film is even more compelling, in which Roseanne describes her political evolution – from “red diaper baby” socialist hippie to freedom-loving American patriot and Donald Trump supporter. In fact, it was her very vocal support of Trump, which seems to have largely damaged Ms. Barr’s television career. When Roseanne ran for president in 2012, she married up politics and comedy for the first time in American presidential history. She was happy to add Donald Trump, but then took it to another level.
In a time when common sense is ascendant in America, and the Democratic Party veers increasingly off the rails with its radical policies, it is refreshing to hear Ms. Barr’s voice as one who was from that world, but came to see the light.