…yeah, I’m on the Jon Stewart train. I make the case for him in another thread.
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And you need to start playing the game as it is played now. And be prepared because as technology changes, the rules of the game are going to shift. There isn’t a Democrat that I can think of that knows how to play this game. To beat Donald Trump you are going to need a Jon Stewart. And even Stewart would struggle against this command of the message that Trump has at the moment. But Stewart at least understands the game and can match Trump blow for blow. Either Stewart or Lisa Simpson. (Because in cartoon reality Lisa inherited the presidency after Trump: yes, THE SIMPSONS ALREADY DID IT)
But it needs to start now. The protests fit Trumps narrative and as right as the protesters are to protest (IMHO) it plays perfectly into Trumps hands. To fight it you need to re-write the narrative. So white people: get the fuck down to the protests and make your voices heard. Not just to show solidarity: but to fight the narrative that the Trump administration is going to create once they take office. It is no longer about convincing everyone. Its about convincing enough people to make change happen. Politics is now an agile process. Its gonna move rapidly and you need to understand how the narrative is going to be shaped and be prepared with a counter-narrative.
And someone start the #JonStewartforpresident hashtag. A couple of years ago the thoughts of this would have been an absolute joke. But we’ve just watched Trump demolish the Republican candidates and beat out Clinton and we live in a new world now. I can’t actually think of someone else who is a voice of rationality in the United States with the mana of Stewart. And he isn’t afraid to say “fuck.” But it would be interesting to hear some other thoughts on who else could fit the bill.
If not Stewart, then someone similar who can go toe to toe with Trump. I just watched about 20 seconds of that video that Salvor posted of Cory Booker and just shook my head. I’m sure he is an exceptionally nice guy who is doing fantastic things and one day might be presidential material. But he would get eaten alive by the Trump Empire. They would chew him up and spit him out.