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Jon Stewart

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The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
Podcasting Through It with Heather Cox Richardson

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The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
Podcasting Through It with Heather Cox Richardson

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The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
Podcasting Through It with Heather Cox Richardson

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The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
Podcasting Through It with Heather Cox Richardson

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The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
Podcasting Through It with Heather Cox Richardson

And the crazy part is that the ultimate paradox or contradiction is exactly what you're describing is the story of America's founding, that it was a rejection of that particular system, that an exploitative system where the voices of the government were ignored because of the resources that they could extract out of the population.

The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
Podcasting Through It with Heather Cox Richardson

And that's why we...

The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
Podcasting Through It with Heather Cox Richardson

That's what birthed us.

The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
Podcasting Through It with Heather Cox Richardson

That fight was our fight.

The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
Podcasting Through It with Heather Cox Richardson

And so to see us become the very thing that we rejected...

The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
Podcasting Through It with Heather Cox Richardson

is so hard to process, especially when you think about how that movement, Trump's movement, wraps themselves in the iconography of our founding.

The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
Podcasting Through It with Heather Cox Richardson

How many buses have you seen?

The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
Podcasting Through It with Heather Cox Richardson

There were the We the People and Don't Tread on Me and all those sorts of the totems of our revolution while creating a system that's antithetical to the entirety of the purpose of that revolution.

The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
Podcasting Through It with Heather Cox Richardson

And I don't know if they โ€“ or I certainly don't think that they in any way see that contradiction.

The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
Podcasting Through It with Heather Cox Richardson

That's got to be a bumper sticker, Heather.

The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
Podcasting Through It with Heather Cox Richardson

Humans are going to human.

The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
Podcasting Through It with Heather Cox Richardson

But I love what you're saying with that, Heather.

The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
Podcasting Through It with Heather Cox Richardson

And it reminds me, you know, to wrap it around, you know, you said sort of early on one thing that I think is

The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
Podcasting Through It with Heather Cox Richardson

has to be a top of mind which is you don't know the future it hasn't been written and as we watch these sorts of almost slow motion car crash happening the fact of the matter is

The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
Podcasting Through It with Heather Cox Richardson

we can in our frustration overturn those injustices and we can in our frustration regain and have a more, we can reaffirm our desire to create the society that we think is fair and to do that in a way that isn't necessarily over an epoch, but it can happen in a moment.

The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
Podcasting Through It with Heather Cox Richardson

It really can.