Jon Stewart

We have to find analogous situations.

Congress is that first, you would think, fuse to pop that could reset and reign this in.

in your vast expanse of history, can you recall a Congress this feckless or one that didn't appear?

I don't even know if they agree with them, but they're so cowardly as to not want to take a chance of even a whiff of resistance.

Who is president at this time?

And that's the thing.

That's where the opportunity, when you talked about the sort of optimistic vision, because you think of it, you know, what do we always kind of rest on the laurels of the system of checks and balances that were designed in the founding father's grand wisdom?

They found ways that it was going to be a battle between the executive and the legislative and the judicial, not sort of foreseeing that political parties might abdicate all responsibility of power just to hold on to power, that there'd be no principle behind it.

And I wonder if Trump saw the weakness of that system

He saw the cowardice in that system of people not wanting to, because for so long, our government has displayed a grand cowardice in terms of bold programs designed to address the needs of the American people.

I mean, I think you talked about these last 40 years.

I think there's been a real erosion between the connection of people to the problems that they face every day and their connection to a government that seems to be designed in no way that the money that you pay in doesn't come back to you in any way that you feel like has a value.

And he saw that and exploited that weakness.

And does that mean there's an opportunity now on the side of the people to seize that and exploit that weakness?

And I hesitate to even put it out there, but not a strong man, but a powerful leader to wield that on behalf of people's needs as opposed to their own gratification.

Right.

I can't remember what that was.

You get the Chevron decision, which removes.

agency from agencies.

Now, how were those muscles developed in the 1890s?