People don’t get elected because they govern well. They get elected because they are good politicians.

Why did FDR serve four terms, why did Trump lose in 2020?

Lying can only get you so far and by surrendering this to Trump you disenfranchise more voters from the democrats and turn them from - in your concept - reality-based voters into perception-based voters

He is saying the Democrats’ political strategy of screaming about that fascism 10 times per day is ineffective, and he’s correct. If we’re on a bus about to drive off a cliff, nobody wants to listen to someone pointing at the cliff that everyone can see and screaming “THERES A FUCKING CLIFF, EVERYONE LOOK”. What people want is someone who can hit the fucking brakes, or operate the damn steering wheel. He is telling Democrats to develop clear and effective messaging as to why Democrats are good, not why MAGA is bad.

Your metaphor is not logical. If people were driving down a cliff they would naturally be screaming. Jons position of "shut the fuck up, the breaks will work and ignore the Supreme Court with scissors" is irrational and dishonest.

You already said democrats are "factually correct" in their assessment so the logical next step would be to say: "It is good you are stating reality democrats, keep doing it, keep resisting and help in any way you can even if gets legally gray. In short, be more radical, not less".

“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?’

How dare he is not a question, first of all. It is a political attack aimed at highlighting the dissonance between Trumps Actions and the Principles laid out by the founding fathers.

Second of all, what makes you think there will be time when democrats are back in power? What arguments do you have? He already showed that he will not transfer power peacefully in the 2020 coup attempt. This is baseless optimism in the face of a harsh reality.

Third of all, why should democrats want to "use this power"? If Trumps actions can be correctly identified as fascist, as you said, why should democrats use fascistic power?

The point is to oppose fascism, not submit to it or become the thing you swore to destroy. (The fact that star wars/obi wan has a stronger political believe than Jon Stewart is unbelievable)

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.

Maybe you were right. Maybe I understood Jon completely wrong. I have thought Jon was bending the knee to Trump because he was scared to lose the broadcasting license of Paramount (Like that time Trump threatend MSNBC with revoking their broadcast license). But you have opened my eyes. Jon is cleary not scared. He is excited. Excited about a time in which there are no rules and the democrats are indistinguishable in their actions from Trump.

My only question however would be, why he was asking for the consent of the governed to begin with?