Jon Stewart

We created...

this stable world.

That's where our leverage and power is coming from.

And to see him piss it away with such velocity, I think it's, is our system up for being able to grab the wheel?

Are we all just still trying to gain our bearings?

No worries.

Right.

It's so interesting to think of it that way, as Trump as almost a vaccination against far-right populism, that they see how it operates.

But maybe that's the difficulty we have in processing him because we look at it, you know, you mentioned Benjamin Harrison, you mentioned Calvin Coolidge, and we process him through our own system of constitutional republic, right?

But he's kind of thrown our lot in

with a different form of government.

It's hard to compare him to American presidents.

It's almost easier to compare him to strongmen.

I mean, I don't know if you saw they unveiled the Trump library

But it's not a library.

It's the Freedom Tower as if the only tenant was Kim Jong-un.

Like it's twice the size of a height of any building in Miami.

And then in it are just gold statues of Donald Trump and his plane.

So how do we process an American president that has so much more in common with the illiberal strongmen of today and the past?

The arc to triumph.