Jon Stewart acknowledged Friday that liberals are stunned that President-elect Donald Trump won reelection so easily, bluntly saying, “F–k us, f–k me — I was wrong.”
on his podcast “The Weekly Show,” experienced political humor The most shocking thing said about Trump’s great performance comeback victory That they achieved it through the legal democratic process.
“I feel like we were prepared for all the scenarios and in each of those scenarios it was how would Donald Trump navigate his way back to the (White House)? How will he use undemocratic principles?” Stewart said in the episode airing Friday.
“To what extent will this man use intimidation and underhand tactics to get back into the Oval Office?” He asked about conspiracies that soon proved to be wildly baseless.
“And it turned out that they used our electoral system exactly as it was designed. And at that moment, I thought, okay, okay. I’m not sure we have a team of lawyers for that,” he quipped ruefully.
Stewart admitted that it was baffling how he and other liberals could get it so wrong.
“F–k us, f–k me – I was wrong, I will always be wrong,” he said.
“I love to sit back and think about autopsies and where you go from there, but I think I still feel like I’m in that moment of vertigo to some extent “
In his reflective speech he also criticized Kamala Harris team The boots-on-the-ground election campaign method flopped miserably.
“Well, I never want to hear in my life that our great ground game will get us to the top. It’s a 50/50 tossup race, we’re sure about that, but the vaunted ground game – it turns out that people knock over other people, not get them to do what you want them to do, I believe, vacuum and Bible salesmen may have known for many centuries,” he said.
Stewart, 61, described Trump’s 2016 victory as a “gut punch,” but said it feels “different” this time, and ended the segment on a positive note.
“I still believe in this country, and I still believe in individuals, and I still believe in the power, the goodness, the potential for change and organization. I mean, for God’s sake, the Mets made the playoffs,” he said.
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