Actor Jeff Daniels said he believes people are unsure what type of country the United States will be with President Trump in office. Daniels is currently portraying lawyer Atticus Finch in “To Kill A Mockingbird” on Broadway.
“Is there anyone in public life living out Atticus Finch, or not?” MSNBC’s Kasie Hunt asked.
“Top of my head, it’s hard to say. I do know that there are people that are struggling to — I think it’s bigger than that,” Daniels said. “I think it’s trying to hang on to whether it’s going to be authoritarianism or whether it’s going to be a democracy. I think there’s a big, big question going on there. I think the jury’s still out on that.”
“You know, I keep saying, who the hero’s going to be. And it may be an Atticus Finch that doesn’t have a name, who isn’t famous, who isn’t in Congress or the White House. And I think it might be somebody we haven’t seen yet, popping up going, ‘I’m going to stand for something and take a stand.’ We’ve got some people starting to do that in their own way. We need more than that,” he said.
Daniels has previously stated if Trump were to be reelected in 2020, it would be “the end of democracy.”
