Sunny Hostin Calls for Open, Andor-Style ‘Rebellion’ to Fight Trump, GOP

Nicholas Fondacaro
May 19th, 2026 11:10 AM

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The incendiary and stochastic terrorist rhetoric of ABC and Disney’s The View took on its darkest and most dangerous form yet. During their Behind the Table podcast on Monday, co-host Sunny Hostin called for an open “rebellion” to fight President Trump and Republicans. Her inspiration was Disney’s Andor, a live-action Star Wars show about the early days of the Rebel Alliance and their violent and clandestine efforts to overthrow the Galactic Empire.

WARNING: There will be spoilers. They’re necessary to give an idea for the type of “rebellion” Hostin was calling for.

Hostin’s open call for a rebellion was the climax of her reaction to recent election related news items. First, she echoed her previous false suggestion that only Republicans were gerrymandering and played dumb about why party gerrymandering was legal while racist gerrymandering wasn’t (party affiliation was not a protected class) (Click “expand”):

HOSTIN: Look, I mean, we're seeing after the Supreme Court decision--

TETA: In Virginia.

HOSTIN: In Louisiana.

TETA: Oh, Louisiana. I'm sorry you're right. Yes.

HOSTIN: The Louisiana decision that you can gerrymander based on political party and not race.

TETA: Right.

HOSTIN: Apparently, if you gerrymander on race, it's illegal, but an unconstitutional, but fine to do it for political party.

 

 

She proceeded to claim blacks were a monolith and only voted Democrat. She then regurgitated the liberal talking that America was experiencing “Jim Crow” again and that the Voting Rights Act was “decimated” (Click “expand”):

HOSTIN: And we know that the majority of the Democratic Party of black voters are in the Democratic Party, something like over 95 percent of women, over 70 - 80 percent of black men. And so race and the Democratic Party are sort of synonymous.

TETA: They're linked.

HOSTIN: They're linked. And so what we're seeing after that is that Tennessee gerrymandered black representation, we're seeing-- it's going to happen in Florida. We're seeing it just all over the south, so it feels a lot like the new Jim Crow, right? Black voters are under-- our voting rights are under attack. The Voting Rights Act has been basically decimated, it's been gutted.

“And so for me, it just seems to me like the Democrats need to understand that there are new rules afoot. And when there are new rules to a game, you play by those rules and you play to win (…) I'm friends with some high-profile Democrats, and I can't say that they get it yet,” she whined.

Apparently, that solution she wanted Democrats to adopt was a “rebellion.”

While she was struggling to finds the words to use to describe what she wanted, executive producer Brian Teta mentioned Andor and the Rebellion. It resonated with Hostin:

HOSTIN: You can't, you know, you want to lead by example, and you want to be above the fray. That is not how this Republican, Trumplican party works, and we are feeling the result of not having a resistance. A valuable resistance.

TETA: You do really have to watch Andor. Let me tell you. It's all about the resistance.

HOSTIN: I know! You've been telling me about Andor! We're both such sci-fi and fantasy fans,

TETA: It will change your life. It's all about forming a rebellion.

HOSTIN: I'm going to start - We need to form a rebellion. A true resistance.

In the Disney show, Casian Andor (played my Diego Luna) experienced the rise of the oppressive Galactic Empire and got recruited to take up arms. The plot had Andor and his comrades steal money from the Emipre to fund the rebellion, turn protests in the streets into shootouts and slaughter, attempt to assassinate high-ranking government officials, partner with extremist elements even other rebels wouldn’t work with, and shoot up the building that housed the Galactic Senate to extract a sympathetic Senator.

That’s what The View was inspired by and openly called for.

The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read:

ABC’s Behind the Podcast
May 19, 2026
00:52

(…)

BRIAN TETA (executive producer of The View): Today, we discuss Trump getting payback on Republican Senator Bill Cassidy and knocking him out of the race. You said today, the Republicans are trying to take away the black vote.

SUNNY HOSTIN: Yeah!

TETA: What's your message to Democrat leaders right now? And how do you-- and extrapolate a little bit about how that's happening.

HOSTIN: Look, I mean, we're seeing after the Supreme Court decision--

TETA: In Virginia.

HOSTIN: In Louisiana.

TETA: Oh, Louisiana. I'm sorry you're right. Yes.

HOSTIN: The Louisiana decision that you can gerrymander based on political party and not race.

TETA: Right.

HOSTIN: Apparently, if you gerrymander on race, it's illegal, but an unconstitutional, but fine to do it for political party. And we know that the majority of the Democratic Party of black voters are in the Democratic Party, something like over 95 percent of women, over 70 - 80 percent of black men. And so race and the Democratic Party are sort of synonymous.

TETA: They're linked.

HOSTIN: They're linked. And so what we're seeing after that is that Tennessee gerrymandered black representation, we're seeing-- it's going to happen in Florida. We're seeing it just all over the south, so it feels a lot like the new Jim Crow, right? Black voters are under-- our voting rights are under attack. The Voting Rights Act has been basically decimated, it's been gutted.

And so for me, it just seems to me like the Democrats need to understand that there are new rules afoot. And when there are new rules to a game, you play by those rules and you play to win. And I think that's the opportunity, but also the disconnect between the Democratic Party and Democratic voters.

It seems-- and, you know, I'm friends with some high-profile Democrats, and I can't say that they get it yet. You know, I always say when they go low, you go to the Earth's crust, you know? You meet the energy, and the Democrats are still trying to be sort of the party of -- I don't even know how to describe it, like the gentlemanly or gentlewoman from New York. You know, they're trying to do this sort of gentle, politicking, and they're bringing knives to gunfights, and it's not working. And I think Americans are sick of it, and they want their representatives to stand up.

I do think there's going to be a backlash. I think with this sort of partisan gerrymandering, I think Democrats are going to come out in full force, especially the young voters. They are angry about this.

TETA: And you think this is going to lead to more progressive wins for the Democrats?

HOSTIN: I really do. I think Mamdani, people thought that that win was sort of an anomaly. I think he is the playbook. I do.

TETA: All right.

HOSTIN: Even in places like the South.

TETA: That's different at the table too. I think we have to talk more about that, because I think there's-

HOSTIN: There's disagreement there. But I'm right.

TETA: It's interesting.

HOSTIN: I’m not wrong.

TETA: Well, I remember because there was a time where you weren't at the Earth's crusted, and you've been consistently there for a while.

HOSTIN: I've been there for a long, long time, but I have. I don't believe in this -

TETA: Michelle Obama.

HOSTIN: I don't. I don't believe in- I think you meet energy with energy.

TETA: I wonder if Michelle Obama still believes in it. I feel like she might not any more either.

HOSTIN: I don’t think she does. You can't, you know, you want to lead by example, and you want to be above the fray. That is not how this Republican, Trumplican party works, and we are feeling the result of not having a resistance. A valuable resistance.

TETA: You do really have to watch Andor. Let me tell you. It's all about the resistance.

HOSTIN: I know! You've been telling me about Andor! We're both such sci-fi and fantasy fans,

TETA: It will change your life. It's all about forming a rebellion.

HOSTIN: I'm going to start - We need to form a rebellion. A true resistance.

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