Jon Stewart blames us all for our current political predicament 

While this proved a somewhat prickly way of going about it, in the end, Stewart just wanted to rag on passionless Democrats for making the case that this is fascism. Stewart’s primary example came from Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, who, after Trump fired 17 or so inspectors, gave a dull speech about how firing government watchdogs welcomes fascism and corruption into American government. We get that he’s not the most inspiring figure, but Schumer’s probably right because presidents don’t dismantle checks and balances because they want the government to work. Still, Stewart doesn’t want us to get ahead of ourselves—optimistically speaking, we have a whole three months or so before we can credibly start calling this fascism. Though, even then, people will still be trying to pass this shit off as business as usual.

Stewart’s point—which is perhaps better than his argument—is that Democrats must start showing how they would do things differently. Sticking to the same playbook isn’t convincing anyone that this is a credible threat, and doing so with the kind of tired tone of business as usual doesn’t help. Would that work better than both-sides-ing the Trump administration? Unfortunately, we’re about to find out.

“I really hope Democrats figure out a way to contain this guy,” he said. “The question is probably not how dare he, though. The question should be, what are you learning from this? How would you use this power? What’s your contract with America? Democrats exist outside of him. Tell people what you would do with the power that Trump is wielding and then convince us to give that power to you as soon as possible.”