When it comes to political comedy or satire, the left only tolerates it from their side. As soon as someone makes a joke they don’t like, they bring out the cancel culture mob. This phenomenon is easily observable when the leftist media tries to cover President Donald Trump, which is what Ali Velshi did on Monday’s episode of The 11th Hour on MS NOW when he and Vox correspondent Zack Beauchamp took issue with Trump joking about running for president a fourth time at his recent rallies and the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.
“It's a joke, but it's not a joke,” Velshi said, putting on his frowny face.
Beauchamp answered by accusing Trump of using jokes to insert his sinister agenda into the political mainstream:
I mean, this is a way in which something that was once in the mainstream or, sorry, excuse me, once out of the mainstream of politics is taken into it, right? You repeat it so many times as a joke. It's, 'oh, no, I couldn't possibly be serious about this. I would never do this.' And then it moves into - it becomes a normalized thing for people to accustom themselves to.
