“I wonder what Mark Hamill, the actor who played Luke Skywalker and nothing else of note in his entire career, thinks about American politics,” said nobody, ever.

But someone at The Daily Beast thought it would be a great idea to ask him his thoughts on the 2016 election and the loss of his candidate, Hillary Clinton. Well, either they asked him or he just couldn’t keep his political opinions out of a PR interview for his new web series, Pop Culture Quest, available at the Comic-Con HQ website.

So, what is Hamill’s hot take on the way the Trump Administration is shaping up? I’ve got a bad feeling about this…

“I’m in total denial. I’m glad I have [the show] to take my mind off what’s going on. Because if you look at what’s being assembled for our government it’s like, yikes. It’s a who’s-who of really despicable people.”

But, Hamill has advice for Hillary supporters looking to hit warp drive and head to Canada faster than the Millennium Falcon on the Kessel Run:

“It’s tempting to say, ‘Well, I’m moving to Canada, I can’t stand it. But in other ways, it’s a challenge to stay and defend your country and do what you think is right and not retreat and hide under the covers. It’s not gonna be easy, that’s for sure.”

Another hidden gem in the Daily Beast article comes not from Hamill, but from the article’s author, Melissa Leon, who was so bound and determined to paint Trump as a racist, she referred to the Galactic Empire as “white supremacist.”

A week after Election Day, on the first Tuesday in America’s new, uncertain reality, the man who once symbolized a rebellion’s hope against a white supremacist empire is aghast.

Wait… what?  I mean, wasn’t this guy a storm trooper?

How does Hamill suggest one recover from the depths of despair over the prospect of a Trump presidency? Watch an old movie or two. He has one or two specific movies in mind:

“It sounds corny, but the Star Wars films were incredibly optimistic films,” Hamill says, earnestness seeping through the gravelly tone of his voice. “They talked about doing good just because it helps others and being selfless and understanding your place in the universe. Beyond being entertaining, I hope that’s a message that kids still respond to. Because I still believe that. I still believe all those tenets of ‘treat others the way you want to be treated’ and so forth.”

Maybe it’s just me, but I’m pretty sure George Lucas and the fine ensemble of actors he gathered in the deserts of Tunisia didn’t come up with the tenet of ” ‘treat others the way you want to be treated.” I could be wrong, but it may have been another guy in a different desert who first said that