Lucy Van Pelt, MAGA Stooge

A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving premiered on CBS on November 20, 1973. Again, Lucy Van Pelt, the resident fussbudget of Peanuts, the comic strip written by Charles M. Schulz from 1950 until his death in 2000, is shown pulling the football away from Charlie Brown, as she had been doing in the strip since 1952.

In 2021, having watched the special for around the 20th time, I noticed something for the 1st time. When Peppermint Patty suggests that the kids have their own separate Thanksgiving meal at Charlie Brown's house, Lucy doesn't get invited. Her brother Linus does, and, in the spirit of the holiday, helps Charlie Brown with the "cooking." But Lucy isn't invited. Serves her right. (She doesn't crash the dinner, either.)

I guarantee you, despite once claiming to have been a "New Feminist," Lucy is a MAGA. She's mean. She hits (as she puts it, "slugs") anybody who dares to disagree with her. She bullies her little brother, and mocks his emotional-support object (his security blanket).

She commits fraud, both with her excuses for why she won't pull the football away from Charlie Brown this time, even though she always does, and with her psychiatric practice. She hates dogs. She has body-shamed Charlie Brown for being bald and Pigpen for his hygiene issue.

And she's just arrogant enough to not only sell out her fellow women, but to believe that being white will protect her from the harm that Trump's policies cause.

In her defense, she does charge only 5 cents for a session. And, unlike Trump, she has never been racist toward Franklin, and has never been homophobic toward Peppermint Patty and Marcie (who are much likelier to be a gay couple than Bert and Ernie).