Counterpoint: being a politician (in the sense of building a coalition to achieve things and/or picking the right people to do things for you and making choices that lead to bad outcomes no matter what) is a skill like any other. Jon Stewart may be able to run for President, but will he be able to actually do the job?
Also, and I'm not across the debate, but campaigning for 9/11 responders and military veterans exposed to toxins doesn't exactly seem like the hardest gig...
I think the fact that he picked those issues shows he's at least got the political nous to build coalitions. Like, he must have known he'd have better success with those than (eg) socialised healthcare or whatever.
As for whether he can actually do the job? Maybe he'd be bad at it, but I'm confident he would be better than Trump – and crucially can beat Trump. Which sadly is the most important thing at the moment.
Maybe. Or perhaps he's just the sort of celebrity who goes on Question Time and demands that politicians 'just cure cancer and just end global poverty' as if the reason they hadn't until now was callousness.
Counterpoint: being a politician (in the sense of building a coalition to achieve things and/or picking the right people to do things for you and making choices that lead to bad outcomes no matter what) is a skill like any other. Jon Stewart may be able to run for President, but will he be able to actually do the job?
Also, and I'm not across the debate, but campaigning for 9/11 responders and military veterans exposed to toxins doesn't exactly seem like the hardest gig...
I think the fact that he picked those issues shows he's at least got the political nous to build coalitions. Like, he must have known he'd have better success with those than (eg) socialised healthcare or whatever.
As for whether he can actually do the job? Maybe he'd be bad at it, but I'm confident he would be better than Trump – and crucially can beat Trump. Which sadly is the most important thing at the moment.
Maybe. Or perhaps he's just the sort of celebrity who goes on Question Time and demands that politicians 'just cure cancer and just end global poverty' as if the reason they hadn't until now was callousness.