Jon Stewart is an intelligent man. An eloquent, passionate, searingly funny and insightful speaker who some would like to see run for POTUS. It seems unlikely he’d want to do that, mostly because he knows he couldn’t stand the snail’s pace of the legislative back-and-forth, and he’d experience a very different dynamic when it came to making his voice heard– in part because he’d be on the inside and dealing with the irrational clown car full of Republicans trying to impeach him for saying such hurtful, i.e. truthful things about them.
A whole other set of pressures would come to bear on his life, assaults from all directions, attacks on him and his family. The magnifying glass would come out, dirty politics would be lying in wait, ready to pounce if he ever decided to run. I can’t picture him wanting the headaches. He’s better off standing at the periphery and on occasion sitting in a hearing as an advocate for whatever cause he chooses to champion.
Not POTUS. I can’t picture him ever wanting to do that, even as he’d certainly spice things up, make things interesting. He’d be confined in ways he probably couldn’t stomach, though. He’d be biting his tongue alot. He couldn’t deal with the backstabbing and the smoke-filled rooms and the constipation. He’d be spending too much time suffering idiots and playing games he probably doesn’t enjoy playing.
In some ways, he has more latitude and a more powerful voice on the outside. Still, it would be something if he entertained the possibility.
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