Jon Stewart admitted Friday that liberals are shocked that President-elect Donald Trump won re-election fairly and easily, saying bluntly: “Damn, damn, I was wrong.” stated.
On his podcast, The Weekly Show, the veteran political cartoonist said the most shocking thing about Trump’s stunning upset victory was that he achieved it through a legitimate democratic process.
“I think we were prepared for every scenario, but like every scenario, how is Donald Trump going to come back (to the White House)? How is he going to use undemocratic principles? Are we going to take advantage of it?” Stewart said on Friday’s episode.
“What kind of blackmail and conspiracies will this man use to get back into the Oval Office?” he asked about conspiracies, which soon turned out to be completely unfounded.
“And at the end of the day, he used our election system as designed. At that moment, I thought, ‘I don’t know if we have a team of lawyers for that.'” joked in a dark tone.
Mr Stewart admitted he was dizzy as to why he and other liberals could get it so wrong.
“We were wrong, I was wrong, and I will continue to be wrong,” he said.
“I love sitting and thinking about dissection and where we go from there, but I think I still feel like I’m in a vertigo moment to some degree.”
In an introspective rant, he also accused the Kamala Harris team’s down-to-earth campaign methods of being a colossal failure.
“By the way, I never want to hear in my life that a game on our proud ground comes out on top. It’s a 50-50 toss-up race, we’re sure of that, but we’re proud of it. In the ground game of salesmen, it turns out that even if people knock on other people’s things, you can’t get them to do what you want, like vacuum cleaners and Bibles. You’ve known it for a while,” he said.
Stewart, 61, described President Trump’s 2016 victory as a “gut punch,” but he felt this time was “different,” ending the segment on a positive note.
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“I still believe in this country, I still believe in individuals, I still believe in change and the power of this organization, goodness and ability. Fortunately, the Mets made the playoffs,” he said. said.
