According to Senator Bernie Sanders, getting President Donald Trump out of the White House won’t mean anything for the Democratic Party if they can’t figure out what comes next.
When Jon Stewart returned to his post at The Daily Show in February, 2024, he pledged to serve as a producer and a once-weekly host on the comedy news series through the 2024 election cycle in order to help his fans through a tumultuous moment in American politics. Then, on the eve of the general election, Stewart extended his stay through 2025, because, even then, he understood that the Democratic Party was going to need more time to figure out how the hell they’re going to combat the imminent ultra-conservative takeover of American politics and culture.
Now, nine months into Trump’s second term, Democratic leadership looks just as lost and rudderless as they did in the hours after Kamala Harris suffered a crushing defeat in November, 2024. Last night, Stewart, who has been hammering figures like Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer for their inaction and the lack of a unifying message for the resistance, hosted Sanders on The Daily Show, where the progressive leader declared, “We have to have a vision for the future of this country. And I think that many of my colleagues in the Democratic Party have not had that vision.”
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But if Schumer didn’t have vision, then how would he have written all those sternly worded letters to the President?
“What that means is that we should not accept the fact that we have so much income and wealth inequality,” Sanders continued, “That you’ve got one guy, Mr. (Elon) Musk, owning more wealth than the bottom 52 percent of the people, that we have a corrupt campaign finance system that allows billionaires in both parties to determine who wins and who loses elections.”
As for how he sees the brighter future of America, Sanders explained, “The vision has gotta be – and I want people to think about this – in this extraordinarily great country, wealthy country, why don’t we guarantee healthcare to every man, woman and child?”
Alluding to the recent and spectacularly well-attended “No Kings” protests across the country, Stewart said, “In this moment, all this potential energy, there is clearly thirst in this country for leadership and smart politics,” adding that the failure of the Harris to win the White House with only a few months to campaign should not have carried over into continued Democratic disarray this far into Trump’s second term.
“The Democrats have had, now, a much longer time-frame, and, yet, to my mind, have not articulated a simple clear vision addressing those very things,” Stewart argued, “And, yet, I would go further, there seems to be a whole thing where they say, ‘Let’s not address that vision, what we need to do is not bother anybody!’”
“A lot of that gets back to money,” Sanders responded, “Basically, if you’re a political party, you’ve got to make a decision: do you go where the money is, where the billionaires are, where the Super PACs are, and kind of do what these guys want, or do you go with where the working class and the middle class of this country are? And those are people who are hurting and who want real change!”
Sanders added of the President, “I’ll give Donald Trump (credit) – he may be crazy, he may be a pathological liar, but he’s not stupid … what I mean by that is the message he gives off, in one way ore another, is, ‘The system is broken! And I alone can fix the system!’ Well, the truth is, the system is broken, and he is making it worse!”
“But the Democrats have got to acknowledge that the system is broken!” Sanders exclaimed.
Clearly Stewart agrees, and, as the centrist power structure of the Democratic Party continues to infuriate the Daily Show host with their inaction, he has turned to one of their oldest foes within the party to recognize what the middle class of the country, regardless of their party affiliation, already knows – the old way of government doesn’t work, and it doesn’t help, support and protect the hundreds of millions of Americans who show up to the polls in every general election.
But, thankfully for Schumer and the Democratic Party leadership, the billionaires disagree, and their pockets will always be deeper.
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