Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart welcomed former Wisconsin Democratic Party Chairman Ben Wikler to The Daily Show on Monday to promote his book that was nominally about how the left can save democracy. However, during their conversation, Stewart would confess that the DSA radicals trying to take over the Democratic Party are crazy but also admitted he did not care. Additionally, when Wikler said Democrats need to be willing to consider expanding the Supreme Court, Stewart agreed, adding, “Go big or go home.”
When someone is running for a high-level political office, it is natural to focus on what they believe. However, for Stewart, that seemed to be a distraction:
And now, we’re in that same bullshit place now where all these new ideas—suddenly the Democrats— ‘These democratic socialists: they’re crazy.’ And you’re like, well, generally, their crazy ideas aren’t where the energy is. The energy isn’t around, like, ‘We shouldn’t have prisons or borders.’ The energy is around a belief that their economic populism, and when you call it socialism, I think it is a misnomer, like in the same way that if you call Social Security socialism, that’s kind of a misnomer. It is about strengthening a safety net for a country that has suffered too long overvaluing capital and money and undervaluing labor and work! That’s all this [bleep] is. That’s it. So, I don’t get the whole hullabaloo.
Wikler agreed, “I think one of the reasons why you see some candidates catching fire right now is that they speak directly to what a total meltdown crisis we are in as a country.”
The DSA nuts are just proof of “a big tent.” Wikler explained, “What people are experiencing in their day-to-day lives, and then they tell people you can do something about this, and I invite candidates, and there are candidates who identify as centrists running in some states, there are democratic socialists in other states. It is a big tent.”
Stewart concurred, “It takes everybody. It takes all kinds.”
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