Jeff Daniels Tears Apart ‘Worthless’ Republicans Enabling Trump: ‘Democracy Is at Stake’
Jim Carrey has channeled his rage over President Trump and the Republican Party into outrageous political cartoons. His Dumb and Dumber co-star prefers words.
Jeff Daniels went on MSNBC on Monday afternoon presumably to promote his Tony Award-nominated performance as Atticus Finch in Aaron Sorkin’s Broadway adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird. But while he was there he delivered a critique of the right that left host and “recovering Republican” Nicolle Wallace nearly speechless.
In a soliloquy on the state of the Republican Party in 2019 that evoked Will McAvoy, his righteous news anchor character from Sorkin’s The Newsroom, Daniels pulled no punches. He explained that in both Harper Lee’s book and the play, Atticus Finch believes that the people “on the other side” don’t all have “bad intentions,” but that that notion is “being challenged now.”