Many people, like writer Roxane Gay, have an problem untangling Roseanne from Roseanne Barr’s personal politics, and that’s understandable.
Making Roseanne Conner a Trump supporter gives the reboot good real-world tension to play with, but still, her politics aren’t the point.
Ultimately, both real Roseanne and her TV counterpart have sometimes confounding politics but they are hers to own, like anyone else’s.
Despite the ways Roseanne 2.0 has been politicized — from Donald Trump’s giddy congratulations to the chorus of people insisting they won’t watch — for the architects of Roseanne, the show is not about Roseanne Conner being a Trump supporter.