Jon Stewart’s fake outrage reveals Democrats have lost the patriotism plot

John Stewart was too rich, too privileged, and spoiled with undue praise, to rule the world outside his bubble.

It’s an unfortunate ordeal for the host of a neighborhood news show called “The Daily Show.”

It was Stuart’s trick Same thing for years: Present yourself as an ordinary middle-class guy disgusted by the American political scene, then spend 90% of your time making fun of only 50% of the perpetrators.

Last week, Stewart’s monologue resurfaced on social media with millions of views, including from one account Incitement for its formulation As a 2028 presidential candidate.

In it, the usually exasperated Stewart lashed out at Donald Trump’s supporters.

“This country is not yours! You don’t own it!” – He shouted.

“You don’t have patriotism! You don’t have Christianity!”

“You certainly do not respect the courage and sacrifices of the military, police and firefighters!” He continued, his angry tone revealing a significant amount of unjust indignation.

It was this Close to getting it.

Stewart’s anger was unfair because Republicans never claimed to “own” any of these things.

It’s just that now they are the only ones defending them.

Although there are certainly still many patriotic, loyal, America-loving Democrats across the country, institutionally, their party has left them behind.

This was true when Stewart first gave his ridiculous lecture in 2016, and it’s even more evident now — which is why his old clip struck such a chord.

In 2008, amid her husband’s rise in the polls, Michelle Obama declared: “For the first time in my adult life, I’m really proud of my country.”

A month after the change, the future president himself said that residents of “small towns” in the heart of the country suffering from a dearth of job opportunities were “bitter” and clinging, among other supposed crutches, to “religion.”

After taking the oath of office, Obama doubled down on these insults.

He soon embarked on his infamous Middle Eastern journey Apology tourHe denounced the “arrogance” of the United States.

Obamacare, its signature legislative achievement, forced Catholics and other religious people to violate their consciences by providing contraception to employees.

Naturally, it has repeatedly sparked racial tensions and anti-police hostility, as happened after the deaths of Michael Brown in Missouri and Trayvon Martin in Florida.

The post-Obama era has been harsher on Stewart’s thesis.

In recent years, the left has waged wars against America’s founding fathers and greatest heroes.

The tragic death of George Floyd in 2020 inspired a hatred of all things red, white, and blue that elected Democrats supported with rebellious zeal.

Recall, for example, how the city of Boston Demolished a 140-year-old monument Celebrating Abraham Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation – because he supposedly represented the “white savior.”

Boston’s then-mayor, Marty Walsh, declared, “Boston residents and visitors were uncomfortable with this statue, and its truncated representation of the black man’s role in the abolitionist movement.”

Not even a hero who paid for freedom with his life can escape Team Blue’s embrace of overt anti-Americanism.

The Floyd riots also unleashed a wave of defamation and physical attacks against law enforcement officers, who paid a heavy price when Democrats endorsed the lies against them.

The “defund the police” movement has deprived departments across the country of resources and morale, driving serving cops to leave the force and convincing would-be cops to pursue less diabolical careers.

Ultimately, this not only hurt the police but also the police The citizens they are sworn to protect.

Moreover, while President Joe Biden has been promoting his Catholic faith when it is politically expedient, his administration has done everything in its power to push extremist gender theory and other non-Christian practices — so much so that the Justice Department has made a point of harassing pro-life activists and Observe lay Catholics Who attended the traditional Latin Mass.

In the face of this recent history, now is the time to search for the democratic self.

After conceding two of the last three presidential elections to Donald Trump, they see their activist wing attacked with violence, Anti-ICE riots Agents and Assassination of the conservative speaker Charlie Kirk.

And when he was their nominee for attorney general in Virginia The imagination was happily sparked Regarding the deaths of the children of his political opponents, their party leaders ignored the matter.

At the root of all this is contempt for this country as it is, for the Judeo-Christian values ​​on which it was built, and for the flawed but honorable institutions that conservatives still cherish.

Stewart’s clip and performative fury served as a mirror to this ugliness.

If Democrats are to reverse their political fortunes and moral decline, they will need a leader with more self-awareness than the oblivious, self-pitying Stewart to rise to the occasion.

Isaac Shor is a senior editor at Mediaite.