Jon Stewart’s faux rage reveals Dems lost the plot – Latest News
Jon Stewart has been too wealthy, too privileged and too coddled with undue reward to have a lot of a grip on the world exterior of his bubble.
It’s an unlucky affliction for the host of a news-adjacent program referred to as “The Daily Show.”
Stewart’s shtick has been the identical for years: Present your self as a down-the-middle everyman disgusted by America’s political panorama — after which spend 90% of your time mocking solely 50% of the culprits.
Last week, a years-old Stewart monologue resurfaced on social media and racked up thousands and thousands of views, together with from an account that’s agitating to draft him as a 2028 presidential candidate.
In it, a usually exasperated Stewart railed towards Donald Trump’s supporters.
“This country isn’t yours! You don’t own it!” he shouted.
“You don’t own patriotism! You don’t own Christianity!
“You sure as hell don’t own respect for the bravery and sacrifice of military, police and firefighters!” he continued, his enraged tone betraying no small quantity of unrighteous indignation.
He was this close to getting it.
Stewart’s anger was unrighteous as a result of Republicans have by no means claimed to “own” any of this stuff.
It’s simply that, by and huge, they’re now the solely ones who champion them.
And whereas there certainly stay many patriotic, trustworthy, America-loving Democrats to be discovered throughout the nation, their occasion has, institutionally, left them behind.
This was true when Stewart first delivered his foolish lecture in 2016, and it’s even more apparent now — which is why his outdated clip hit such a nerve.
Back in 2008, amid her husband’s rise in the polls, Michelle Obama declared, “For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country.”
A month and change later, the future president himself mused that the inhabitants of “small towns” in the heartland with a dearth of job alternatives “get bitter” and cling to, amongst different supposed crutches, “religion.”
Upon taking the oath of workplace, Obama doubled down on these insults.
He shortly embarked upon his notorious Middle Eastern apology tour, decrying the United States’ “arrogance.”
Obamacare, his signature legislative achievement, compelled Catholics and others of religion to violate their conscience by offering contraceptives to workers.
And of course, he repeatedly stoked racial rigidity and anti-police animus, comparable to after the deaths of Michael Brown in Missouri and Trayvon Martin in Florida.
The post-Obama period has been even more unkind to Stewart’s thesis.
In latest years, the left has launched wars on America’s Founding Fathers and biggest heroes.
George Floyd’s tragic death in 2020 impressed a hatred for all issues crimson, white, and blue that elected Democrats dutifully supported with iconoclastic fervor.
Recall, for instance, how the metropolis of Boston tore down a 140-year outdated monument celebrating Abraham Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation — as a result of it supposedly represented “white saviorism.”
“Residents and visitors to Boston have been uncomfortable with this statue, and its reductive representation of the black man’s role in the abolitionist movement,” declared then-Mayor Marty Walsh.
Not even the hero who paid for liberty along with his life might escape Team Blue’s embrace of overt anti-Americanism.
The Floyd riots additionally launched an outbreak of vile smears and bodily assaults towards law enforcement officers, who paid a heavy price when Democrats endorsed the lies leveled towards them.
The Defund the Police motion disadvantaged departments throughout the nation of each sources and morale, pushing working cops off the drive and persuading potential ones to pursue much less demonized vocations.
Ultimately, that harm not simply the police, however the residents they have been sworn to guard.
Moreover, whereas President Joe Biden touted his Catholic religion when politically handy, his administration went all-out to push radical gender principle and different un-Christian practices — a lot in order that his Justice Department made a level of harassing pro-life activists and monitoring rank-and-file Catholics who attended the conventional Latin Mass.
In the face of this latest historical past, now could be the time for Democratic soul-searching.
After conceding two of the final three presidential elections to Donald Trump, they’re seeing their activist wing lash out with violence, rioting towards ICE brokers and assassinating conservative speaker Charlie Kirk.
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And when their candidate for lawyer basic in Virginia was caught gleefully fantasizing about the deaths of his political opponents’ youngsters, their occasion leaders shrugged it off.
At the root of all that is contempt for this nation because it exists, for the Judeo-Christian values on which it was constructed, and for the flawed however honorable establishments conservatives nonetheless cherish.
The Stewart clip, and his performative outrage, held up a mirror to that ugliness.
If Democrats wish to reverse their political fortunes and ethical decline, they’ll need a chief with more self-awareness than the oblivious, self-pitying Stewart to rise to the event.
Isaac Schorr is a senior editor at Mediaite.
