“The Daily Show” host Jon Stewart opened his show Monday by taking Democrats through the wringer in a stinging takedown of their election night defeat last week, joking with his audience, "It turns out the election was stolen by more people voting for Donald Trump.”
“It’s quite the capper,” Stewart said to laughter. He opened his show Monday by demanding a close-up camera view before taking on a serious tone and declaring: “Welcome to the resistance," he said, pausing as the audience applauded. "I’m actually being facetious.”
He continued his opening segment by dissecting the Democrats’ election night loss with a smattering of humor and defeat, and then offered his own assessment of what the Democratic Party – and the political analysts – got wrong.
“I’m glad to say Democrats did protect democracy, just for the other side,” he said. “But it’s a delight to hear about why it happened from so many people who were so wrong about what was going to happen,” Stewart said.
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“Everybody’s talking about this ‘wokeness’ theory,” he continued. But, he noted that the Democrats “didn’t talk about pronouns, they didn’t say ‘Latinx,’ it was the opposite. They didn’t do the woke thing…they acted like Republicans for the last four months. They wore camo hats and went to Cheney family reunions.”
He said instead, Democrats were mostly running “against an identity that was defined for them based on a couple of months of post-George Floyd defund the police ‘Me Too’ Instagram posts from four years ago."
He continued his post-election assessment by telling viewers that the general mood in the country that the Democrats discovered on election night was that “government wasn’t working for them.”
“And then Democrats in particular were taking their hard-earned money and giving it to people who didn’t deserve it as much as them. So the Democrats got shellacked," he said.
“But, I just want to assure people that this isn’t forever,” Stewart told his audience, before discussing the 1984 election results when Democrats won just a single state.
“We don’t know what’s going to happen in four years, at all.”
Watch the clip below or at this link.