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Should Jon Stewart Run for President in 2028? The Movement Is Growing — and It’s No Longer a Joke
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Did I time travel to 2000?
this post was submitted on 14 Aug 2025
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Jon needs to run as a Democrat, and he needs Colbert to be his running mate ars a Republican for teh lulz
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God, I hope we can do better than Jon Stewart.
I love the guy, but a Bush Jr. era comic is not what we need right now.
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There are certainly worse candidates. Stewart still seems like he has a soul, unlike most republicans.
Whoa, this thread has the most comments I've ever seen on Lemmy, I think.
The fact that anyone still believes there will be anything resembling "fair" elections by 2028 is baffling to me.
The american capacity to stick their head in the sand as long as they have the newest gadget in front of their face and an endless stream of tiktok content to look at is fucking insane.
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Eh, I trust Stewart's motivations, but not necessarily his judgment. I listened to him interview Ezra Klein and Stewart fell for his neoliberal Abundance bullshit without any pushback of critical thought. I could see him getting led astray by some of the same Democratic hacks that destroyed the party.
I’d vote for him twice.
Why would he want to take the helm of this dumpster fire?
In the grand scheme of things I don't think Jon Stewart wouldn't be that different from Gavin Newsome as president. I'd prefer Stewart 100x more than Newsome, just on a personality level, but the direction of the office would be pretty much the same. Newsome is a slimeball but he's not the worst Dem option on the progressiveness & electable matrix. I'm pretty sure Stewert isn't to far from Newsome on the spectrum overall. I'd much rather have AOC personally. I think she's far to the left of either Jon and Newsome.
Newsom has been leaning into transphobia recently, he's a slimeball and I don't trust him to not throw the trans community under the bus for some bullshit.
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