Kelsey Grammer sounded curt this morning when he brusquely told a BBC Today program interviewer that he still supports Donald Trump but, according to his interviewer, this curtness doesn’t tell the full story.
Grammer’s interviewer Justin Webb said the Frasier star was “perfectly happy” to go on talking about his support for the former POTUS, “the Paramount+ PR team, less so.”
Grammer has previously expressed support for Trump – a relatively rare position for a TV and movie star to take – and he also used his BBC interview to back Roseanne Barr, another self-confessed Trump supporter.
I can’t stand the guy myself but I also see articles like this and can’t stand the circle jerking and it alienates someone like me. And I’m fairly left politically. But the behaviour that I think this article is generating makes me consider that its also as cult like as trumps horde.
I don’t think its a good trait to start avoiding things that don’t agree with us politically. To say “I’m not watching his show anymore” seems like a bad idea because it’s likely applied in other parts of life.
Big picture here for me is at the end of the day, opinions spread like memes. If the left is sheltering away from things they don’t agree with then their fucking dumb assholes. Imagine a Jon Stewart show where he or his writers never once took the time to watch and evaluate things they disagreed with politically. Where would the content come from? So left is doomed if they start sheltering more and more because they won’t spread any ideas worth listening to.
I find myself just unable to agree with what you say.
I mean, let’s take the idea that we should be able to shut off someone’s political opinions and view them purely in a vacuum to the extreme. Imagine a cooking show hosted by Hitler. Could you watch “Cooking With Hitler” and truly divorce yourself from everything he did and said and believed and just enjoy his cupcakes? I know that I could not, and I don’t expect there are many people on the planet that honestly could.
So if we tone down the extremity of that example a bit, we can apply the same thing to what we’re looking at here. Kelsey Grammer’s political opinions are terrible. I don’t know how you can come to any conclusion other than that unless you are a die-hard MAGA. His politics are just abhorrent. I can only separate a person’s politics from their self and their work so much.
Back when he was in Frasier, I knew he was a pretty hardcore right wing conservative, but at the time that meant a different thing than it does today. It wasn’t so extreme that I couldn’t enjoy Frasier. But now, seeing what the GOP has become, and what they stand for, and what they’ve done over the past 15+ years, it’s too much for me. Anyone who chooses to stand in the same camp as Trump, the 1/6 insurrectionists, the Christian fascists… they’re too far gone for me to connect on any level. I have no idea if the Frasier reboot is any good (or the Roseanne one for that matter), because I am too aware of who these people are. They have shown not only a total lack of compassion and empathy, but also it’s extreme inverse. It’s Cooking With Hitler for me now.
It’s not at all about sheltering. I am not sheltered from these concepts. Quite far from that, in fact. It’s keen awareness of them that makes me so repulsed.
I think its good to let that argument sit and allow people to see that. This is an absurd take that Kelsey grammar saying he supports trump is in some way akin to watching a cooking show about Hitler. I know you didn’t say that directly. But the logic is there to associate it. I assume you are trying to use an extreme to show that there is a situation where it would be crazy to say “who cares their politics” but in this case presenting that case shows how absurd a lot of you are in your thinking on this issue. You have been driven to the fringes just as the right were years ago and still are. You’re all being bent like a reed.
The absurdity of that statement was the point of it. That seems to have gone way over your head. Oh well…
Trump and maga republicans are on an entirely different spectrum than differing opinions. They are actively destructive anti democratic lunatics. I’m all for negotiating and broadly navigating politics and policies in effort to give and take across a diverse populace. I would soon alienate anyone and everyone that supports trump and his maga lunatics full of hate than give a single fuck about anything they have to say. Theirs plenty wrong with the democrats and I hope the Republican Party is able to pull its head out of its ass but until that happens anyone supporting their regressive hate filled bullshit is a pile of human shit as far as I’m concerned. It’s past the point of being able to claim willful ignorance, even Fox News has had to pull away from trump and correct his blatant lies that he tries to incite his goons with its so bad.