by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
When asked recently by Seth Myers on his TV show, Stephen Colbert said he would need to “talk to his faith leader and his wife” about running for office. He definitely did not say *no.*
Now, the hilarious element to any talk about Colbert running for any sort of office is, of course, that he would be definition be a Blue Donald Trump. They say if you live long enough, you turn into the thing you hate and so, lulz. That’s exactly what would happen if Colbert if he ran for POTUS.
Not that Colbert would not do a good-to-great job as POTUS. He would be great and I definitely would vote for him. In fact, I would go so far as to suggest that Colbert might even be an American Volodymyr Zelenskyy if he ran and became POTUS.
And….yet…Trump has such damage to the American political system and government and the rot, the innate structural problems that caused Trump in the first place aren’t going anywhere so….Colbert would only be able to do so much good under the best of times.
As it stands, we probably have a good 20 to 40 more years of MAGA dominance to suffer through, unless something — the Singularity? — happens that really puts a new spin on things in ways that no one, least of all me, can expect.
Anyway, I hope does Colbert does run for POTUS. That would be pretty cool.
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