Jon Stewart is indignant. He’s additionally uninterested in Democratic lawmakers’ reliance on “norms.”
On Monday night time’s “The Daily Show,” he laid into the Democratic Occasion for not exploiting the identical sorts of loopholes the Republican Occasion has used to manage our authorities.
Stewart pointed out that Donald Trump’s latest demand to bypass background checks and the affirmation course of for Cupboard picks is simply the newest instance of the GOP benefiting from our nation’s legal guidelines in ways in which create an uneven enjoying subject.
“I’ve mentioned it earlier than, and I will say it once more,” Stewart mentioned. “Republicans are playing chess, and the Democrats are in the nurse’s office because they glued their balls to their thigh.”
Stewart cited former Majority Chief Mitch McConnell’s refusal to carry a affirmation vote for President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court docket nominee Merrick Garland, adopted by McConnell’s quick monitor affirmation of Justice Amy Coney Barrett in 2020.
“What government actually is, is an overly complicated Byzantine bureaucratic maze of rules, loopholes to those rules, and norms complex enough that if you want to find a rule that keeps you from doing something, you’ll find it,” Stewart explained. “And if you actually want to do something, you can find a loophole to get around said rule. And then the ‘norms’ are just how often you’ve had to pull any of this shit.”
“You guys, be the loophole guys that figure out how to get shit done because they don’t give a fuck about your norms,” Stewart continued. “Now Trump has the Home, Senate, presidency, and judiciary. So it’ll get tougher, not simpler. Democrats are going to should forcefully play the loopholes.”
Democrats are actually making ready for the battle. There are strikes being made by the Biden administration to safeguard necessary progress, and there are lawmakers like Sen. Elizabeth Warren and California Gov. Gavin Newsom who’re making ready resistance in opposition to the subsequent Trump administration.
Moreover, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and Colorado Gov. Jared Polis have created the pro-democracy group Governors Safeguarding Democracy particularly to battle Trump. Different lawmakers have already mentioned that their states will battle in opposition to any mass deportations that Trump tries.
However Stewart isn’t improper. This election was about saving our democracy, and the resistance in opposition to tyranny calls for we act prefer it.
