Harder Than It Looks

Message to Donald Trump and the rest: we don’t want what you’re selling.

There’s a reason Stephen Colbert’s attitude may seem biased. It’s because he knows a rat when he sees one, and he has every right to call it out. It’s a choice he apparently made a long time ago. All those right-wingers who take offense and are glad he’s getting the ax and feel he had it coming apparently forget that the horse they’re backing is a human anachronism, a navel-gazing loser.

They don’t have to watch Colbert—surely they can find something more user-friendly on Fox or OANN. Trouble with that is, a right-wing comedian is hard to come by and would probably be hard to watch. He or she can’t really be funny—they don’t know how. A world view so tainted by self-righteousness, paranoia, anger, and moldy thinking isn’t exactly fertile ground for comedy.