"But as Richmond pointed out, progressives have long had a fraught relationship with television. As Michael Moore put it almost a decade ago, "Do you know what's wrong with the Left? They don’t watch TV." According to Richmond, many on the left continue to associate television with poor quality and even worse politics — "the Right and the average."

As she tells friends who claim to loathe television, "Culture includes all sorts of things, but TV is the baseline, (yes, sometimes it’s base, but that’s part of the point) which means not watching it makes you as uninformed as someone who doesn’t read the news. And I know you all do that. Watching TV means you get to learn about and have more informed conversations about politics, values, culture … and relationships, sex, and drugs."