Mr. Rogers, Politics, and Pop Culture
8 min readOct 16, 2020
“Well @JoeBiden @ABCPolitics townhall feels like I am watching an episode of Mister Rodgers Neighborhood.”
That’s a tweet from Mercedes Schlapp in regard to Joe Biden’s Thursday night Town Hall event, and if you don’t know who Mercedes Schlapp is, it might even sound like a compliment. Americans, particularly those of us old enough to remember watching new episodes of the show about the neighborhood named for the man who taught us that we were special just the way we were, love Mr. Rogers… don’t we?
