Comedy Central’s part-time late-night host Jon Stewart took a sledgehammer to the cacophony of “submissive liberal crying” from elected Democrats and corporate media talking heads that “Trump is a fascist” following a week in which the president ushered in a litany of executive actions, firings, and mass deportations of criminal aliens.
“Now look, I have a lot of fear that as this term goes on, things are going to get a little fascist-y. And we must be vigilant. But part of vigilance is discernment. Republicans control the House, the Senate, the executive, and the judiciary. And just about every move that has been made, till this point, we have granted them electorally. It’s our fucking fault,” Stewart said during his 20-minute takedown of the Democrats’ oft-hyperbolic reaction to Trump’s first full week in office.
“And a constant drumbeat of encroaching fascism will erode the credibility we will need if, hopefully if and if not when, it hits,” Stewart continued. “The truth is that for now, is that the most objectionable actions have taken place almost entirely within our designed democratic system.”
