Jon Stewart Cautions Dems On Fascist Alarmism: “Don’t Hate The Player, Hate The Founding Fathers”

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This week on The Daily Show, Jon Stewart cautioned Democrats from sounding the fascism alarm at every possible opportunity when it comes to president Donald Trump‘s executive actions in his first 100 days.

Kicking off the segment with news of the tech market’s downturn amid Chinese artificial intelligence competitor DeepSeek, Stewart remarked: “I do know that this is bad news financially, but is anyone else somewhat excited that A.I.

had its job replaced by A.I.?” Moving on to the meat of the night’s subject — Trump’s flurry of orders — the host commented on Friday night’s firing of 17 inspectors general, which members of the news media had dubbed a “purge.” Playing on the descriptor and 2013’s crime-horror thriller of the same name, Stewart wielded a prop axe in mock-terror as he began jamming it repeatedly on his desk. “That only leaves … no one knows how many left.

I have no idea,” he said of the inspectors. “First law of Trumpodynamics, every action is met with a very-not-equal overreaction, thus throwing off our ability to know when sh– is actually getting real,” he said, following up his statement with a clip of Rachel Maddow’s denunciation of Trump’s actions as “textbook authoritarian takeover 101.” Stewart then lamented, “I knew I should have taken that class and not majored in submissive liberal crying 101.” When it comes to concerns about our democratic systems, Stewart said the Constitution doesn’t do much by way of safeguarding its people. “For some reason, we have given presidents the power of a king.