Why I Wanted To Reboot ‘Roseanne’ For The Age Of Trump

Whitney Cummings, co-showrunner of the revived sitcom, wanted to break beyond the liberal media bubble: “Since tweeting wasn’t working, maybe giving my brain to a show that touched the hearts and got the eyeballs of so many working-class people is how I could finally do my part to help us all make sense of the election. … This show is not about Trump – it’s about the circumstances that made people think Trump was a good idea.”