Jordan Klepper

And I was very concerned with the fact that sometimes I think or I thought back then that Americans take democracy for granted.

And democracy is something that has to be, you have to fight for it every day.

But now I think differently.

I think that now I see American citizens and American institutions sort of waking up.

Do you see that?

You know what?

I...

I will say, I can speak for myself.

There was resistance.

You know what?

I see a veil dropping with the general trust that we had in institutions.

I will say, even as somebody who grew up in the Midwest, there was just a general baseline trust in our institutions that they would be the things that brought us back to the core American values.

And I think what is becoming...

realize, at least to me and a lot of people I see, is that, like, those ideas of institutions that hold things up or what an American ideal or what our morality is are simply decided upon by people in the moment and the ways in which they fight for those things.

The institutions will not save you.

It's the people who sort of fight for those things and uphold those moralistic points of view that do.

And so I think that...

I see people grappling with that now.

You're not going to be saved by that person that you hope.

The person you vote for is not necessarily going to be your savior.