The outcomes of the 2024 election are in, with Donald Trump efficiently profitable a second time period as President of the USA. Whereas it clearly wasn’t the result Seth Meyers hoped for, the Late Evening host has inspired different disenchanted Individuals to not lose coronary heart.
“All I do know is that the battle for justice would not finish with one election,” Meyers stated throughout the newest episode. “We should all gird ourselves for what comes subsequent, and do every thing in our energy to make actual the world we wish to reside in. In occasions like these when every thing feels overwhelming and inconceivable, like all hope is misplaced, we now have no alternative however to look again on the broad scope of historical past. Justice just isn’t automated, comeuppance just isn’t assured. Politics sadly just isn’t a Marvel film, despite the fact that Joe Biden does look eerily like previous Captain America.
“That does not imply the wrestle towards a extra simply and compassionate world is futile, it simply means it is fucking laborious and heartbreaking and soul-crushing and agonising and it by no means ends. Democracy doesn’t occur solely on election day.”
Meyers did acknowledge that the U.S. is prone to face laborious occasions, rapidly working by a few of Trump’s most harmful and controversial and insurance policies. However with the election carried out and dusted, and Trump destined for the highest job as soon as once more, Meyers informed viewers to focus now on what they as common Individuals can do to make the world a greater place.
“He stated he could be a dictator on day one,” Meyers continued. “The query now’s: What is going to the remainder of us be doing on day one? When you’re one of many tens of thousands and thousands of Individuals who stated no to Trump’s darkish, harmful imaginative and prescient for America final evening, now’s the time to face in solidarity with our associates, with our neighbours, with the weak communities, and start the laborious work of creating actual the world we wish to reside in. That is what we can be doing on day one. We do hope you will be part of us.”
