Jon Stewart says presidential election was a 'repudiation' of liberal government he spent years propping up

"The election that we just had was a repudiation of the status quo," Jon Stewart said from his perch behind the Daily Show's desk on Monday night. Stewart, a long-standing Democrat and progressive, has been criticizing the party for losing the presidential election since that resounding defeat and further has been blasting them for having no real understanding of the electorate that rejected them.

"An overly regulated system that is no longer responsive or delivering for the needs of the people," he said, before taking a dig at New York state officials for their recent execution of a man's pet squirrel. "Government is theoretically a constitutional system of checks and balances between equally powerful branches. But what government actually is," Stewart went on, "is an overly complicated, byzantine bureaucratic maze of rules, loopholes to those rules, and norms."

Those norms were defeated in the recent general election by the ultimate check on governmental power, the voters. This is not the first time Stewart has taken aim at his own party. As Democrats, as well as national leaders, President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, whined about the decline of democracy should Trump serve a second term in the White House, Stewart pointed out that the intentional cover-up of Biden's obvious mental decline, fueled by old age, was not exactly encouraging.
 

This is the same system that Mr. Stewart spent years upon years smugly propping up. https://t.co/tqBPrY2p8Z

— Libby Emmons (@libbyemmons) November 19, 2024