Jon Stewart says presidential election was a 'repudiation' of liberal government he spent years propping up

"The election that we just had was a repudiation of the status quo," Jon Stewart said from his perch behind the Daily Show's desk on Monday night. Stewart, a long-standing Democrat and progressive, has been criticizing the party for losing the presidential election since that resounding defeat and further has been blasting them for having no real understanding of the electorate that rejected them.

"An overly regulated system that is no longer responsive or delivering for the needs of the people," he said, before taking a dig at New York state officials for their recent execution of a man's pet squirrel. "Government is theoretically a constitutional system of checks and balances between equally powerful branches. But what government actually is," Stewart went on, "is an overly complicated, byzantine bureaucratic maze of rules, loopholes to those rules, and norms."

Those norms were defeated in the recent general election by the ultimate check on governmental power, the voters. This is not the first time Stewart has taken aim at his own party. As Democrats, as well as national leaders, President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, whined about the decline of democracy should Trump serve a second term in the White House, Stewart pointed out that the intentional cover-up of Biden's obvious mental decline, fueled by old age, was not exactly encouraging.

"An arthritic status quo, unwilling or unable to respond in any way to the concerns of voters who just received new and urgent information about their candidate also erodes confidence and faith in the system of government," Stewart said in July. "'Get on board or shut the f*ck up' is not, is not" he said to cheers, "a particularly pro-Democracy bumper sticker."

He further suggested that Democrats had an opportunity to get better leaders. "Do you understand the opportunity here?" He said. "Do you have any idea how thirsty Americans are for any hint of inspiration or leadership and a release from this choice between a megalomaniac and a suffocating gerontocracy? It is crushing our f*cking spirit!"

While Trump served four years in the White House between the Obama-Biden administration and the Biden-Harris administration, he remained a bit of a Washington, DC outsider, with legislative and bureaucratic forces attempting to remove him from power or limit his executive reach. Democrats and progressive ideals have been status quo since Barack Obama took office. Stewart was a frequent visitor to the Obama White House.

Democrats have controlled the culture with Hollywood, the music industry, the academic and cultural institutions, and the halls of justice. And their organizations, non profits and NGOs were what set the tone. Now they've not only all been repudiated but discredited.

Democrats paraded entertainment A-listers before the American people, fined football players for interrupting on-air interviews while wearing MAGA hats, and shunned celebs who lean to the right. Former Democrats have left the party, often publicly, while denouncing that party's failure to protect free speech rights, religious liberty, women's rights, or uphold principles of equality.

The universities have proven themselves to be hot-beds of antisemitism and lacking in free speech. The non profits and NGOs have been aiding illegal border crossers. And the judges and prosecutors have been literally charging people with hate crimes for leaving skid marks on rainbow crosswalks. No one wants what these people are selling. Jon Stewart knows it and so does Trump— that's why the American people are sending him back to Washington.