On Monday, perhaps the most successful alum of the Jon Stewart-era of “The Daily Show” is John Oliver, host of “Last Week Tonight,” made a surprise return to the show. But he wasn’t there just to bro-out with Jon Stewart. Nay, he was there in his capacity as an English man to, as he put it, to “gloat” that at long last America has turned back into a monarchy.
This was inspired by the topic Stewart devoted the bulk of Monday night’s episode to: The myriad incredibly corrupt, brazenly unconstitutional or just plain erratic things Donald Trump has been doing since taking office again.
And of course, Stewart touched a little on how Republicans are fully on board, and also doing things like admitting these actions are illegal but claiming that’s no big deal, or lie about what’s happening. And Stewart got into how Democrats have proven, so far anyway, functionally useless as an opposition party.
But the main thrust was that Stewart noted how Trump by his own statements wants to take America back to an earlier era. But, every time he examined Trump’s statements endorsing the rollback of everything from civil rights law to child labor protections, Stewart realized he needed to go back much further to figure out precisely where Trump wanted to go.
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