10 Movie Characters Who Should Run For President In 2020

The fact that the Klu Klux Klan celebrated its 150th anniversary in the year that Donald Trump became President elect went over most people’s heads, but if the Democrats want to leave the centre ground and field a racist candidate in 2020, they need look no further than Calvin Candie, who owns the fourth largest plantation in the South.

Like Trump, he’s a child of privilege who has absolutely no problem trading his fellow human beings for cold hard currency, but that’s not enough to make him a thoroughly repellent character.

When we first meet him in Django Unchained, he’s enjoying the sight of two slaves wrestling on the floor of his study, and when the champion tears out his opponent’s eyes, it amuses him further. It’s a good thing Candie’s boy triumphed, too, because when he buys a slave for $500, Candie expects to get five fights out of him, otherwise the guy gets fed to the dogs.

Like most racists, he has a theory explaining why blacks are “inferior” – it’s all to do with the three dimples on the back of their skull. The dimples are located in the part of the brain associated with servility, so by selling coloured people as slaves, he’s just helping Mother Nature along.