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Jordan Klepper is asked if we’ll be okay if Trump wins. Get ready.

Jordan Klepper is asked if we’ll be okay if Trump wins. Get ready.

Jordan Klepper from “Daily Show”was with many Donald Trump rallies, and we felt obligated to ask him if we would be okay if the Republican candidate won the election.

HuffPost recently asked him on Zoom ahead of a new special Monday night where he once again seeks out MAGA students for laughs.

Hey Jordan, are we going to be okay?

At first, the comedian played it lightly. “When we get to the point where we worry about fascism and ask the comedian if we’ll be okay, we’re no longer wondering if we’ll be okay.”

Wanting a more serious answer, Klepper unloaded a reality check.

“We are now at a very serious moment in our history,” he said. “And what scares me is, no matter what happens on November 5th, the means by which we have our conversations is so broken and so ill-equipped to handle any nuance that I really fear what will happen in the next year, two years back. in a few years, in three years.”

“There are a number of things to worry about if Donald Trump takes office,” he continued. “…If there is no Trump administration and there is Kamala Harris administration, this does not prevent 49% of the population from still receiving the information that they receive.”

“The structure of social media and cable news right now makes us dumber, weaker, and more open to manipulation,” he continued. “So yes, we have problems.”

Jordan Klepper: "We have problems."
Jordan Klepper: “We have problems.”

Klepper covers up pessimism with stupidity in his latest collection of meetings with campaigners, “The Daily Show Presents: Jordan Klepper Shows the Pulse: Let’s Rally Together.” It airs Monday at 11:30 pm on Comedy Central and then streams on various platforms.

Clapper’s disruption of Trump rallies in swing states continues to ridicule the underinformed. But for a change, he invited an affable Trumper named Ed to his first Kamala Harris rally.

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“To me, Ed feels like a member of your family that you have a connection with and that you don’t agree with on everything, but you don’t see the darkness in his heart like you project onto other people you haven’t met. met as part of the MAGA movement,” said Klepper, a correspondent and alternate host of a political comedy news show.

Klepper has become friends with some of the regulars and says patrons are mostly polite. But at the same time, his security detail at the average Trump meeting has increased from zero to four, often because of followers who believe they are on a “vigilante excursion” encouraged by their “great leader,” he said. He was intimidated at a school board meeting and received personal threats that he did not wish to detail.

Still, Klepper doesn’t expect his forays into ground zero Trumpdom to stop, regardless of the outcome on November 5th.

“Dating remains open,” he said.