by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
There are two people who definitely should say fuck it and run for office: Stephen Colbert and Jon Favreau. I keep expecting Pod Save America’s Favreau to run for governor of California, but, to date, not even a hint that he will.
The thing about Colbert, meanwhile, is he’s in the political sweetspot. It’s like he was designed in a lab to be the perfect Blue response to MAGA’s Trump. But there are two major problems.
One, is, Colbert just won’t do it. Probably because of his wife, if nothing else. He would actually see governing as something to be taken seriously and, as such, he would bow out because he’s not willing to do it as a comedic guy.
Two, a lot of Blues would be opposed to Colbert because they would roll their eyes and say we learned our lesson with Trump — celebrities don’t make for good politicians.
As such, I just don’t see how in the world we could get Colbert to run for *anything*, much less POTUS. The only way I could maybe, just maybe see him doing it is if something happened to him personally because of Trump — or if maybe the Pope told him to.
