“Is it creating a, you know ... And having worked on some of those things on Capitol Hill and all that, I know the difference now, which I didn't before. The difference between activists who are in the trenches doing that day-to-day work, trying to bend that arc of the moral universe slowly towards justice, not realizing there's a bunch of people trying to bend it back.”

Jon Stewart · said 2026-08-26 · reported 2026-08-26

Stewart contrasted the work of his show with activists doing day-to-day work on Capitol Hill.