Stewart isn’t a fan of the “fascist” freakout…
Daily Show host Jon Stewart criticized the media’s relentless “fascist” attacks on President Donald Trump, saying they have numbed the country.
In an off-air clip shared on X, an audience member asked Stewart what he would say to those who accused him of being “light on the fascist message recently.”
“Oh, well, I’d tell my critics—shut up! You’re a fascist!” Stewart joked.
“I’m very big on- and I know it’s annoying, but specificity and nuance,” Stewart said. “And I think if you cry ‘fascism’ at every administrative overreach, even the ones that are constitutionally OK, you will find yourself out of fascism bullets when the time really comes.”
“I think what the media has done over the past ten years is cry wolf, to the point where they numbed everybody,” he continued. “It was an anesthetic, and it got to where- what was the thing they litigated throughout this campaign? ‘He’s a fascist, he’s a terrible person, democracy is on the ballot.’ Guess what lost at the [ballot box]? If you told us democracy was on the ballot, democracy got its ass kicked by a majority vote.”
“So I am very cautious about when to know, like, yeah- hopefully I won’t do it the night after Kristallnacht… but it’s like when you put your dog down. It’s one of those things, like, you’re not quite sure, but I do understand how annoying that is,” Stewart added.
Watch the clip below:
"I think what the media has done over the past ten years is cry wolf, to the point where they numbed everybody." Jon Stewart explains his POV on whether to call Trump "fascist." #AfterTheCut pic.twitter.com/FWneAS7VbK
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