'Family Ties' star Justine Bateman slams 'un-American period' over the last 4 years: 'Common sense discarded'

In the aftermath of a sweeping Republican electoral victory, filmmaker and histrion Justine Bateman said connected Friday that she had been "walking connected eggshells" the past 4 years, a play she called "un-American."

"I person recovered the past 4 years to beryllium an astir intolerable period. A precise un-American play successful that immoderate questioning, immoderate opinions, immoderate likes oregon dislikes were held up to a precise constricted database of "permitted positions" successful bid to measure acceptability," Bateman posted connected X..

Bateman, who appeared successful deed TV shows "Family Ties" and "Desperate Housewives," added further that she’s ne'er known specified conditions "to beryllium an American environment."

'Family Ties' histrion Justine Bateman slammed the past 4 years nether the Biden medication arsenic being "un-American." (NBC/Desiree Navarro)

"It’s an situation I person encountered successful smaller groupings (a church, a backstage club, a clique), but ne'er earlier arsenic a nationalist blanket. It has been suffocating. Common consciousness was discarded, intelligence treatment was demonized," she said.

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She went connected to say, "'Permitted position’ behaviour and code was ‘allowed.’ Complete intolerance became astir a religion and one’s nonrecreational and societal beingness was threatened astir constantly. Those that spoke different were ruined arsenic a informing to others."

"Their demolition was displayed successful the ‘Townsquare’ of societal media for each to see."

Bateman’s comments came aft President-elect Donald Trump’s landslide triumph connected Election Day implicit Vice President Kamala Harris successful sweeping each battleground state, securing the electoral assemblage arsenic good arsenic the fashionable vote.

Harris congratulated Trump implicit the telephone connected Wednesday greeting and aboriginal delivered her concession code astatine her alma mater, Howard University.

Trump’s 2nd statesmanlike predetermination came alongside the GOP winning the Senate bulk and gaining much seats successful the House. 

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The Republican Party’s triumph has prompted galore discussions wrong the Democratic Party, including Harris-Walz surrogates, to self-reflect connected what led to the outcome, particularly considering that a Republican has not won some the fashionable ballot and electoral assemblage successful implicit 20 years. For instance, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., accused the Democratic Party of abandoning the moving class.

The Republican Party’s triumph has prompted galore discussions wrong the Democratic Party, including Harris-Walz surrogates, to self-reflect connected what led to President-elect Donald Trump's victory. (Bill Pugliano/Getty Images)

Bateman added that the suppression of code implicit the past 4 years has stifled the state from immoderate "forward movement" due to the fact that it unopen retired "independent thinkers and taste and intelligence innovators."

"This was the #MeMeMeMeToo moment, wherever each effort was made to divert attraction to oneself, alternatively of recognizing however 1 contributes to the whole. This was the epoch of trying to workout power implicit those who did not privation to travel the assemblage and has their ain ideas astir what they needed to do," Bateman said.

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"When you starve a nine of those called to beryllium autarkic thinkers and taste and intelligence innovators, you rob that nine of immoderate guardant movement," she continued. "Those that tried to enforce that power maintained a benignant of ‘hall monitor’ presumption by threatening others with damning labels similar ‘Sexist,’ ‘racist,’ "homophobic,' etc, erstwhile the free-thinking and questioning was thing of the sort. 

"However, the mob mentality that followed caused these societal convictions erstwhile determination was often nary grounds to enactment them," she said portion pointing to the publication "Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds."

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"I americium neither 1 utmost oregon the other, but americium 1 of the millions of radical who judge successful communal sense, and that everyone should beryllium escaped to unrecorded their lives nevertheless they want, unless that state interferes with idiosyncratic else’s state to unrecorded their ain life. That’s it," she concluded.

Bateman's remarks followed several different celebrities, galore of whom supported Harris, to psyche hunt aft the Republicans’ decisive victory. "The Big Short" manager and staunch progressive Adam McKay announced that helium was abandoning the Democratic Party for the Green Party oregon Working Class Families Party.