Opinion: How Trump turned liberal comedians conservative
Then along came Trump, who wasn’t part of the system at all, and thus didn’t fit into Stewart’s man-versus-the-machine framework. The day Trump descended a Trump Tower escalator to announce his candidacy, in June 2015, Stewart
Stewart left the show a few weeks afterward, part of a long-planned retirement. He wasn’t on the air to document the ongoing campaign, the collective realization that Trump wasn’t just a punchline, and the joke was on the establishment. Still, he was onto something about Trump. The 45th president is undeniably funny—innately entertaining, whether he intends to be or not. Partly, that’s because he’s more ridiculous than anything the sharpest writer’s room could cook up.
At the start of his administration, many speculated that Trump would turn more measured and sober once he felt the gravitas of the office. But his insult-comic persona isn’t artifice; he can’t be shamed or cajoled into being anyone but himself. And in posture, if not politics, the language often matches what Young has observed about conservative outrage. Not only is it positioned against fighting a threat, it’s also straightfoward in perspective—not a multilayered critique of a system, but a blunt road map for politicized anger.
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