For the government school graduates reading this, Vladimir Lenin is generally credited with coining the phrase "useful idiot".
used to describe Soviet sympathizers in western countries (particularly in the United States). The implication was that the person in question was naïve, foolish, or in willful denial, and was being cynically used by the Soviet Union, or another Communist state. The term is now used more broadly to describe someone who is perceived to be manipulated by political movement, terrorist group, or hostile government, whether or not the group is Communist in nature. Wikipedia
If anybody fits that description of a "useful idiot" it's Danny Glover.

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