Jon Stewart, host of “The Daily Show,” provided a hopeful phrase to his viewers on Tuesday evening because it turned clear Donald Trump would win the election.
“Here’s what we know, is that we don’t really know anything,” Stewart stated, “and that we will come out of this election and we will make all types of pronouncements about what this nation is and what this world is. And the reality is, we’re probably not going to know shit.”
“And we’re going to make it seem like this is the finality of our civilization,” Stewart added. “We’re all going to have to wake up tomorrow morning and work like hell to move the world to the place that we prefer it to be.”
Stewart reminded the viewers that as unhealthy and dire as issues really feel at this second, what we hear from the pundit class about what the long run holds is often incorrect. And he proved that by exhibiting clips of ABC’s George Stephanopoulos and former Fox New blowhard Invoice O’Reilly making ridiculous declarations concerning the nation’s political and social future.
When Trump defeated Democrat Hilary Clinton in 2016, the pundit class stated the subsequent Democratic candidate must be “younger” and from a “new generation,” which, as Stewart factors out, wasn’t even remotely true.
“We have to continue to fight and continue to work, day in and day out, to create the better society for our children, for this world, for this country, that we know is possible,” Stewart continued. “It’s possible.”
