In the aftermath of 2024 election results, Americans are rightfully worried about what a second Trump administration may bring. This week, Jon Stewart is joined by Heather Cox Richardson, author of “Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America” to explore what our past can teach us about the resiliency of our democratic institutions as we navigate an uncertain future.
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00:00 – Introduction
04:06 – Heather Cox Richardson
06:00 – The candidate’s commercial selling points
07:30 – The economy, the voter’s perspective, and political technology
08:20 – The voter’s view on the system, touching on neoliberalism
11:00 – Looking back on the economic policies of Biden administration
12:50 – Voter’s rejection of Biden economic plan
15:26 – Bringing Tim Walz on board
18:14 – Comparison to Steve Bannon’s takeover of Breitbart
21:20 – Groups of voters, motives, and strategies
27:12 – Democracy in this moment
34:04 – State Governance
40:40 – Reactionary Movements
41:53 – Propaganda vs. Reality
48:09 – The world we are looking at now
49:53 – How similarly/differently do you feel to 2016 election?
51:09 – How do we stop the Democrats from learning all the wrong lessons from this loss?
55:14 – How do you want the media to cover Trump over the next four years?
59:15 – How do you find the strength to have hope for the future?
1:02:08 – Breaking Down The Episode
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So according to her Joe Biden completely dismantled neoliberalism, lol
Education and knowledge is never a bad thing and it's always better for a society. But at the moment education is not what wins presidential elections there are far more stupid people in our population with the ability to vote. The solution for the next two or three elections is for the Democratic party to run a controversial celebrity like Trump but that is educated and has better values….. Someone like Jon Stewart
#JonStewart2028
It comes down to the question of classism. Everything else is just windowdressing.
There is pre DNC kamala and post DNC Kamala. Before the DNC she picked Walz and talked about corporate greed and she seem like a real change candidate. Then the DNC happens and she does a hard right turn and decides to brag about how 90 CEO's wrote a letter saying how great she is. Mark Cuban was all over T.V telling everyone how corporate friendly Kamala will be and don't worry nothing will change! She ran she a predictably bad campaign that decided to turn away from the base of dem support to actively court gop voters. It was the Chuck Schumur quote " for every blue collar voter we lose we'll gain 2 gop voters in the suburbs" Kamala got 6% gop support!
Wages went up more than inflation She’s a liar. Typical liberal liws
The "objective economic measures" Stewart's referring to that indicate a "fantastic economy," "the best since 1968(?)" are themselves skewed to class interests: the ownership class. Mcjobs, gig employment, partial employment counted as "employed," jobs without sufficient hours for benefits, jobs without benefits, automated jobs, outsourced jobs, wage stagnation, unaffordable homes, etc. etc. ad nauseum. 1968 was the peak year for economic equality in American history because of LBJ's war on poverty and social democracy programs. Where are the programs? Bernie came with programs and people said he had "problems," not programs. Meanwhile, the poor continue to be blamed for being poor. When is neoliberalism/capitalism blamed for any of this? As for the people they're bemoaning who didn't hear the "good news," they didn't HEAR that eggs were more expensive, they didn't eat eggs because they couldn't afford them. This neoliberal analysis that claims "we did away with neoliberalism" with Biden is what's being rejected. Biden was one of the original avatars of neoliberalism and sold LBJ''s social democracy to the highest bidder, so there's no countervailing force against corporate power now, which is what a labor-centric party is supposed to be. Instead, Ask the railroad workers about Biden's unionism. Biden wanted to get rid of SS and Medicare his entire career. His employment program was to privatize the prison system. Our demagogues and current social instability were inevitable because the neoliberals outsourced whatever was left of America to Malaysia. If "these people" you two are slandering here had been ALLOWED to go to college, maybe you wouldn't be so embarrassed by them now. This woman is wrong and her day is done. And good riddance!
I much prefer intellectual John to Daily Show John
40 years of socioeconomic nightmares for the vast majority of Americans and this lady thinks it's a matter of "framing." "The economy is fabulous… every economist will tell you that!" The neoliberal economists also said that neoliberalism would trickle down. It didn't. Duh! That's why there's a Trump. But keep blaming the voters for not having a party that represents their material interests and getting fooled by demagogues. It's not the corporate capture of the Democratic party, it's the Internet! Riiiiiight! Good analysis!
There is so much the Left must learn about this defeat, and no amount of initial rationalization will bring immediate consciousness. One must first admit the over-reaching will to power of the Left before blaming everything on the greed of the Right? Both are true, but when the left excels at it and uses deception, denial, and propaganda to obtain it (when they assume the higher moral or ethical ground), the resultant hypocrisy is far more malevolent and dangerous, and frankly disheartening. This is why so many feel betrayed by the Democratic party, and just want to be free of the thought-police and its policies.
Hey! Biden said he's FDR! Neoliberalism is gone! Why don't they believe him?! And the lesson of his failure is that there's no upside to investing in people – because he lost via Harris' proxy to a demagogue. Yeah, that's it! Now we know.
2024 Jon Stewart is the poor man's Jimmy Dore. Times have really changed.
Wrong on all counts
I feel like Jon kept prodding Heather towards critiques of the system as a whole while she basically refused to do so. Classic “the symptoms are very bad, but the causes are very good” capitalist liberalism.
The following was a public service announcement from the left wing psychosphere
Her comments on Steve Bannon are truly psychotic. Lol he's never said anything like that. So weird.
The cartwheels she does while trying to explain minorities' and womens' abandonment of the Democratic party is worth watching. Did anyone think to ask these people why they didn't vote for Harris before concocting these "story theories?" My bet is it's the money – or lack of it.
It's not a matter of whether democracy is viable or responsive in the 21st century – there hasn't been a democracy in America for decades: it's an oligarchy. The question is whether neoliberal capitalism is democratic. Obviously, it's not: enter Trump (or whoever the next demagogue will be).
John, you should take a look at Wendy Brown's work on neoliberalism and democracy: she understands it A LOT better than this woman. And she lives in NJ!
An elitist defending the corrupt elitist you know the ones that donated 1B dollars while pretending to be for the people. All these entertainers are just part of the corruption, it’s all just a massive gaslight. Jon you’re so phony
Door to door is not a good thing in this day and age.
I think the notion of American exceptionalism, in its arrogance and sense of superiority, has blinded us to reality and a true understanding of the issues we face.
in today’s political climate people vote emotionally. people were upset with high priced goods and telling them it was getting better didn’t appease them. the democratic party needed to separate from biden and appeal emotionally to the masses
Left wing sells fear like there is no tomorrow. That is why you lost. You hypocrites.
1 hour long video of venting , still in disbelief these two lol
You should be on Bluesky.
"The way she frames it." I Love that line. We all tend to frame it in a way that is palpable to us. I would love to see her discuss this with other historians who also, 'frame,' things in a way that is digestible to their own likening. If you know of any discussion she has with other historians who disagree with her, I would love to listen! I'll try and find some!
Well, India is still doing democracy with 5x the number of people.
This women needs to be on every news network.
Heather, legendary
More of this chick please!! This women is doubling down on what lost the election
If Kamala had not talked constantly about being black and a woman,and had talked about policy,she might have won
23:30 her explanation of why latino and black men went for trump massively more this time than they did when Biden ran is just fully bonkers. They did it because they were coerced and did it so they wouldn't be attacked? You don't wear hats and t-shirts and go to rallies if you're being coerced. Come on, this is just so transparently false.
RFK wants to clean up the food supply and medical industrial complex. the democrats kicked him out of their party. this tells you all you need to know about the corrupt big business democrats
I don't think I've ever seen too more clueless, misinformed yet high-minded people in my life. It's like their entire minds are set to determine ways to reset their propaganda to deflect accountability from the Democrat machine. And then they wonder why us black folk are also turning conservative … we no longer trust the media.
John Stewart 2028🎉
A great intellectual discussion too bad it's wasted on the majority of Americans that cannot comprehend it.
A bit too arrogant and condescending for me. It has more than a hint of intellectual elites talking and getting kudos from more college educated elites. I'm sure many are well intentioned, but the discussion is so far over the heads of average working people who have every right to think it's the price of eggs. Democrats made just about every mistake possible and this discussion seemingly ignores what people have been screaming at them all along. It's the price of eggs. All these high minded ideas go for naught because we haven't learned enough to win such an important election. Harris and Hilary both ran lousy campaigns and expected to win without the people FDR spoke to and listened to. It's the flipping price of eggs. And we'll never advance our goals until we accept that fact.
Here we go with Russia and disinformation. Once again no lessons learned.
Oh boy, the guest seems to be in total denial.
Run for President Jon
LOL!! Unbelievable how completely out of touch and racist Heather is.. Hispanics and African Americans are nuanced people! We live in regions with so many layered cultural experiences, and religion plays a fundamental role in our lives. I can’t think of a better example as to why the DEMs lost so badly, than this generic postmodern pseudo intellectual conversation! lol
It's absolutely incredible what they've done. Trump and company have systematically broke down people's faith in institutions, Norms, Science, Math and facts themselves. They have so completely and systematically broke down. People's faith and what they are hearing that they believe they can only trust what trump himself says. They have broke down people not only mentally but spiritually as well. Feeling they cannot trust anyone and believe in nothing, nihlism results. This type of thinking is a virulent disease that eventually kills its host. That's why people with brains are scared of trumpism. Their methods are abhorrent and so manipulative that they've got voters voting against their own interests and believing nothing that they hear. They've sold off their future so that eggs and gas can be twenty cents cheaper tomorrow. They cannot see beyond their own immediate selfish needs and wants. The reason they cannot do this is because their faith and belief in the system has been obliterated by trumpism
Centrist = establishment, corporate politician. We dont want that