Crossposted on NewsBusters.
SUSAN SARANDON, actress: But maybe, you know, they don’t want a third party but the DNC has made it very clear that they don’t let any progressive in. You know so maybe it’s time to have a third party.
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LARRY WILMORE: But you know, but the Democratic Party is not a progressive party. The last time the Democratic Party was a progressive party was when LBJ was president.
SARANDON: Try FDR.
WILMORE: Well no. LBJ was a progressive president right?
SARANDON: But I’m saying I think he was kind of pushed into it. I mean he wrote a lot of fabulous legislation. Yeah.
WILMORE: If you sign it, then you did it.
SARANDON: That’s true.
WILMORE: You know you gotta give him credit for it, right? If you don’t sign it then I think it’s different
SARANDON: But we didn’t have the Koch brothers. We didn’t have all these people just messing with the whole system, you know. It’s impossible now. And you’re asking the Congress that’s benefitting from all of this to vote against it and that’s never gonna happen unless you get a Bernie Sanders in.
--- Exchange on Comedy Central's The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore, April 20, 2016.