Former CSI star Marg Helgenberger is doing an acting stint at Arena Stage in Washington DC in The Little Foxes, a play by leftist Lillian Hellman. She granted an interview to the local gay magazine Metro Weekly, and they asked about the election. Helgenberger said she's a longtime Hillary fan, and "It’s just beyond my comprehension how anybody could support a racist misogynist moron like Donald Trump. It’s beyond my comprehension. I mean, he’s a bad guy, you know? He’s a really bad guy."
Not only that, his followers aren't very bright:
MARG HELGENBERGER: Look, obviously there is a faction of the country out there that feel as if they have been left out, left behind, and he speaks to them. I don’t know exactly how he’s really going to help them that much, but he speaks to them. They’ll forgive him for anything. It doesn’t bother them that he went bankrupt several times, that he’s not paid taxes, that he’s done a number of things. Cheated people, not paid them. They’ll forgive him anything. It’s mystifying.
METRO WEEKLY: Well, in the debate, when she said, “You haven’t paid your taxes,” he went, “That makes me smart,” and then denied having said that, despite the tangible proof.
HELGENBERGER: That’s what I mean. There’s something wrong with him. There’s something wrong with him. I don’t know what a shrink would diagnose what he is, but he’s not a normal person. There’s something mentally wrong with him. He’s able to function — he’s obviously been a successful businessman, but some of it has been by being dishonest and taking advantage of the laws that he’s taken advantage of, which is rigged. He keeps saying, “Oh, everything’s rigged.” Yeah, the system’s rigged for corporations. They allow you all these deductions, and allow you to get away with not paying your fair share. He’s vile. He’s just vile.
MW: Do you worry about what would happen to this country should he win?
HELGENBERGER: Oh, my God. I honestly think it would be a really dark day in American history if he were to be elected. A really dark day. In all honesty, I really don’t think that there’s enough people to vote for him.
On a note of diversity and tolerance, the magazine asked Helgenberger about her take on the LGBT issues, and she laughs at the idea that there's any ideological diversity at all on gay orthodoxy in the theater community. No, no, no, all people with traditional values are blacklisted from the theater world:
MW: What is your take on the politics of the LGBT movement, particularly with regard to same-sex marriage?
HELGENBERGER: [Laughs.] I’m in the theater community, and anybody who wouldn’t be for gay marriage, I think, would be thrown out, you know what I mean?
