Speaking during a Friday, August 2 podcast episode, popular comedian Andrew Shulz said that he finds the message former President Donald Trump pushes, one of resisting the establishment, quite alluring, while that pushed by the Democrats is incredibly uninspiring, and so has started to fall by the wayside.
Shulz’s Friday comments on “The Brilliant Idiots” podcast came alongside most of his fellow Americans placing an incredibly low amount of trust in their institutions, such as the television news networks and Congress, with Gallup showing that trust in those is bouncing around historic lows.
So, it made a great deal of sense for Schulz to say during his comments on “The Brilliant Idiots” that the near-certain Democratic nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris, will struggle mightily in her attempt to defeat Trump, as now many voters resonate with Trump’s messaging about fighting the establishment.
Schulz said, speaking on the matter of how Trump is far more enticing than Democrats because he inspires rather than harangues, “He’s very enticing, he’s incredibly enticing and I think that he’s enticing because I think the Democrats have utterly failed to inspire us in any way, shape, or form.”
Continuing, Schulz turned to Kamala and how she made it to being the likely nominee, which was a very undemocratic process, before noting that she can’t inspire people. He said. “And that burden is now on Kamala … who is someone who is not the nominee because of the democratic process … She has a huge burden to inspire and I think it’s nice to see somebody that is bucking the system especially when you feel the systems, you feel have left you down.”
That’s when the podcast co-host Charlamagne Tha God chimed in and asked whether former President Trump is “still bucking the system.” Shultz noted that the truth isn’t so much the matter as what our perception of the current state of things is. He said, “It’s not about whether he is or isn’t; it’s the perception that he is. So, if you feel let down by the pharmaceutical industry and he’s out here questioning it, you’re like, ‘Ooh, I kind of like that.’
Continuing, he noted that Trump is seen as the anti-war candidate, saying, “If you feel let down by the military-industrial complex with all these wars that we’re in and he’s like, ‘we’re going to stop these wars,’ you’re like, ‘Ooh, I like that,’ because you know if Kamala is in, we ain’t stopping no wars. That’s business.”
He also spoke about institutions generally and how Americans see them as having let down normal Americans over the past few decades, leading to much resentment against them. He said, “The enticement comes from the facts that he’s calling out these institutions that have let me down and let Americans down, right?”
He added, “So, if you’re critical of institutions that I’ve lost faith in, then naturally, I’m going to be like, ‘Alright, that sounds kind of fire.’ And if the other candidate isn’t also critical of them, I start to go, ‘Wait a minute, are you just a shill for these institutions that keep letting Americans down?’ And I think that’s where a lot of people in the middle, especially, are.”
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