http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lawrence-rosenthal/trump-2016-archie-bunker-runs-for-president_b_7974990.html
But if American politics does not offer us a model for Trump's vulgarity, American culture is more availing. Trump's characteristic argument-by-insult follows in the trail blazed in the 1970s by Archie Bunker. Archie's foil was his son-in-law Michael, and Trump summarizes Archie's core beef against Michael when he says, "I think the big problem this country has is being politically correct." Archie could not abide when his well-worn ways of thinking and speaking ran into the new-fangled judgments of Michael.
And Archie summed up Trump's unfailing habit of labeling his targets stupid or ugly by simply referring to Michael as Meathead. Facts? In classic Archie style, conviction and spontaneity take the place of evidence. Trump in Phoenix, July 11, when some people in the crowd unfurled a critical banner: "I wonder if the Mexican government sent them here. I think so."
Watching Trump in 2015 has the feel of an episode in which Archie runs for president. Or, perhaps, Archie runs for president after an episode in which he wins the lottery. One will remember, of course, that after All in the Family, Archie had a followup series in which he owned and ran a bar.
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