Susan Sarandon goes completely off the deep end – and this time we have to worry about it
As the 2016 election cycle went on, we all watched Susan Sarandon devolve in real time. She started off as a longtime liberal political activist. But once it became clear that Hillary Clinton was going to win the democratic primary race by millions of votes, she was reduced to screaming at people about how everything was somehow rigged. And by the general election, she was on TV suggesting that things would be better under Donald Trump than under Hillary.
At present, Susan Sarandon is just a sad laughing stock who’s not taken seriously by any politically sane person, right? We should all be able to safely ignore her inane rambling, right? Except, no, she’s still somehow a surrogate for the Bernie Sanders 2020 campaign. That’s why it’s particularly disconcerting that Sarandon announced on Twitter today that “We’re not looking to keep Pelosi.” Wait, what?
To be clear, Sarandon isn’t just talking about replacing Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House. She’s actively promoting a fringe candidate who’s running against Pelosi in her district. That’s right, after all that Pelosi has done to help fend off Donald Trump and lead the Resistance over the past year, one of Bernie Sanders’ campaign surrogates is now trying to get Pelosi kicked out of Congress.
The trouble is that Bernie Sanders is elevating the voices of dangerous crackpots like Susan Sarandon by using them as campaign surrogates. And now that Sanders’ supporters mistakenly think he’s on a path to the nomination because he’s won two out of the three states that have voted thus far, out of fifty states total, Sarandon and other loons like her are feeling more emboldened than ever. These are the types who just want to burn it all down – and they’re being elevated.
Bernie Sanders needs to answer the question of whether he agrees with his campaign surrogate’s position that Nancy Pelosi deserves to be bounced out of Congress. If he refuses to answer it with a “yes” or “no” then he needs to drop out. It’s true that Sanders can’t always predict what’s going to come out of the mouths of his surrogates. But he can control whether he continues using any given person as a surrogate. If Sanders continues using Sarandon after what she pulled today, he’ll become responsible for the harmful things she’s saying.
