Former White House Press Secretary and current MSNBC host Jen Psaki joined Jon Stewart on Wednesday’s episode of Comedy Central’s The Weekly Show podcast to try to figure out why Democrats lost in November. On one hand, Psaki claimed the party’s focus on the potential end of democracy is partly to blame, but on the other, she couldn’t let such rhetoric go as she claimed “the threat of fascism is a huge issue” and President Donald Trump is “an aspiring dictator.”
Stewart asked Psaki to consider that what Trump is currently doing is simply what people want, “And now, by going through this real executive unitary, kind of, reordering of constitutional powers? Is he doing the people’s bidding? Is he doing this thing that will make democracy? How do you process that?”
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