I was going through my YT feed, and I came across this long video about the Tucker/Stewart beef. It is over an hour, but I think it really puts John Stewart Leibowitz into proper context.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlIynbYUA1Q
I had never seen those Crossfire clips before, so watching Leibowitz lecture Tucker on his moral failings was all new. I don't know how Tucker put up with his moralizing ass, I would have tossed him out almost instantly. I couldn't stand Colbert or Leibowitz back then because of how blatantly one sided and disingenuous they were, but I can see what Leibowitz is doing a lot more clearly now. It isn't about politics, it is about moral lecturing, and he cloaks it in comedy.
Both sides are bad, so don't vote for either, would be the lane I'm suggesting you go down.
You can't stop me! I'm gonna vooooooooot even harder!
Voting is a strategy, not the be all and end all. The opposition uses it like that in countries that are even more openly authoritarian than the US.
I think that is just as much a mistake as reflexively voting for the lesser of the two evils.
If you vote for the lesser of the two evils, even when the differences are very small, the lesser evil will get more evil each time.
On the other hand, Trump is markedly better than any Democrat. He's also at the limits of what you can get away with in the current system, probably even way beyond it - considering what they have done to him. Throwing a tantrum because Trump isn't X enough is self-defeating.
How is it a tantrum to say that Trump is as uniparty as anyone else? Look at who he filled his cabinet with, swamp monsters.
Yeah, that's why they indicted him four times.