Here’s the extended interview:
It is not as black and white as some are representing it to be. And she’s certainly not calling for a Trump win: “Some people think Donald Trump will bring the revolution immediately — if he gets in then things will really explode… Some people feel that” by heightening the contradictions, Hayes suggests, and she nods. She’s not advocating that that’s the way to go.
Here’s the line to which folks are objecting when Hayes asks whom she’ll vote for if Bernie is not the nominee:
“I don’t know, I’ll see what happens.”
Here is what I hear as the explanation of her resistance to pledging her vote now to Secretary Clinton while Bernie is still in the race:
If you feel it’s pragmatic to shore the status quo right now, then you’re not in touch with the status quo. The status quo is not working. And I think it’s dangerous to think we can continue the way we are with the militarized police forces, with privatized prisons, with the death penalty, with the low minimum wage, with threats to womens’ rights and think that you can’t do something huge to turn that around because the country is not in good shape. If you’re in the middle class, it’s disappearing…
She is where I am. Fact is, Bernie is still in the race, and he stands for a different America than the course we are currently on. While he remains in the race, he’s my guy. In the event that he does not get the nomination, ask me THEN whom I will vote for as my second choice. That’s all Sarandon is saying. I agree with her. She’s refusing to buy into the current iteration of the inevitability meme which now says all American subjects must take a loyalty oath to Clinton prior to the contest being decided since it has been proclaimed from on high that she will be our candidate.
No thanks. I’ll stick with my guy until, like he has said, the last vote is cast. After that, I’ll be happy to discuss my second choice candidate in the event he is not our nominee.
In 2008, Clinton stayed in the race after any path to the White House for her had been ruled out. She apparently felt one path for her still remained: Her assertion was unreasonable and unconscionable. If she’s your candidate, remember she repudiated the PARTY UNITY argument last time around:
Let the race play out.