ICYMI: In an interview with Variety, MichaelJFox said his breakout NBC FamilyTies character AlexKeaton would have long rejected today's GOP. Here's why he's right - and why viewers grew to love a character who was so wasy to hate. Opinion
had some interesting things to say about Alex Keaton, the character in his 1980s sitcom seriesthat first made him a star. Fox said that Alex Keaton would have abandoned the GOP long before Trump and the Jan. 6 attack:"He would have left. I don't think Alex would even see Republican and Democrat now. He'd see normal people and crazy, fascist weirdos."Alex Keaton was kind of a smug little creep.
He was possibly the biggest symbol of the Reagan 80s on television: a peppy, optimistic, teenage True Believer in Reaganomics. He was like a teenage descendant of Archie Bunker from, only smarter, savvy, and with the belief the world was his oyster instead of a bitter, aging, pessimistic reactionary like Archie was. In many ways, Alex Keaton was the most loathsome character on television in the 1980s and a testament to just how good of an actor Michael J.
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