The grisly murders last week of Hollywood director Rob Reiner and his wife Michele, allegedly at the hands of their deranged son, moved me to go back and watch two of my favorite “All in the Family” episodes. They are both from Season 2. In the first one, “Edith Writes a Song,” a pair of thi eves, Demond Wilson (“Sanford and Son”) and Cleavon Little (“Blazing Saddles”), break into the Bunker home and discover that the homeowner has some racist tendencies. “Look what we done found here,” the Cleavon Little character says. “A genuine,100 percent, died-in-the-wool bigot. Come on, say something bigotty.” “I ain’t no bigot,” the host, Archie Bunker, responds. “I’m the first one to say that it ain’t your fault youse are colored.” The second episode, “Sammy’s Visit,” features the legendary Sammy Davis Jr., who leaves his briefcase in a cab Archie was driving. When he comes to the Bunker home to retrieve it, he makes the same discovery, even as Archie’s Black neighbor, Lionel, comes to his defense. “He’d never burn a cross on your lawn,” Lionel says. “No, but if he saw one burning, he’s liable to toast a marshmallow on it,” Davis responds. “All in the Family,” which featured Reiner as Archie Bunker’s son-in-law, Mike Stivic, was one of the most groundbreaking shows on television during its run in the 1970s. It brought me back to a time when the quality of television was top notch, and everyone, Black, white, rich or poor, watched the same thing. It also made me wonder: How did we get Archie Bunker in the White House? After the Reiners were found stabbed to death in their Brentwood, Calif., home, President Trump, no fan of the liberal elite, had this to say on social media: “A very sad thing happened last night in Hollywood,” Trump posted on Truth Social. “Rob Reiner, a tortured and struggling, but once very talented movie director and comedy star, has passed away, together with his wife, Michele, reportedly due to the anger he caused others through his massive, unyielding, and incurable affliction with a mind crippling disease known as TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME, sometimes referred to as TDS. He was known to have driven people CRAZY by his raging obsession of President Donald J. Trump, with his obvious paranoia reaching new heights as the Trump Administration surpassed all goals and expectations of greatness, and with the Golden Age of America upon us, perhaps like never before. May Rob and Michele rest in peace!” What a meathead. Meathead is what Archie Bunker used to call his son-in-law in the iconic show. But the name feels like a better fit for a man who would attack a beloved murder victim, caught up in a tragic family drama, before the body was even cold. Even in the face of bipartisan backlash, Trump doubled down on his dirt. “I wasn’t a fan of his at all,” Trump said later at the White House in response to a question about his post. “He was a deranged person as far as Trump is concerned.” Actor/producer/director Rob Reiner (center) and wife Michele (L) and son Nick Reiner (R) attend Teen Vogue's Back-to-School Saturday kickoff event at The Grove on Aug. 9, 2013, in Los Angeles, Calif. (Photo by Michael Buckner/Getty Images for Teen Vogue) Even Archie Bunker had a soft side. On the show, Bunker’s favorite president was Richard Nixon. He insisted to his wife’s cousin, Maude, that “Franklin Delano Roosevelt ruined the country.” If Bunker’s character were alive today, he’d have a new favorite: Donald John Trump. He’d be on board with everything Trump has done to dismantle diversity and cozy up to dictators. Archie Bunker: “Well, I’ll tell you one thing about President Nixon. He keeps Pat home. Which was where Roosevelt should have kept Eleanor. Instead, he let her run around loose until one day she discovered the colored. We never knew they were there. She told them they were gettin’ the short end of the stick and we been having trouble ever since.” Trump: I’m Donald Trump, and I support this message. What a meathead. ...read more read less