CBS’s Stephen Colbert welcomed Sen. Bernie Sanders to The Late Show for the nineteenth and hopefully final time on Tuesday for an obnoxiously long, four-segment softball interview covering everything from Colbert’s employer to Venezuela to Minnesota to socialism.
Early on, Colbert put the ball on the tee, “As long as I’ve got you here, as long as I’ve got you here, I think we all understandably say what an authoritarian society is. It’s an abuse of authority, really, for people’s own personal gain. When we say oligarchic society, when we say oligarchy, just define for everybody what you mean by that.”
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