Jon Stewart is coming back. Who asked for this?

The MoJo Daily newsletter, Monday through Friday. [View in browser]( [Mother Jones Daily Newsletter](     January 24, 2024 Donald Trump's march toward the Republican presidential nomination is, as my colleague Abby Vesoulis noted from New Hampshire last night, [making history](: The twice-impeached former president facing 91 felony counts, Abby writes, is the first Republican in an open, competitive primary season to win in both Iowa and New Hampshire since 1976. Yet for all the records smashed, Trump's sprint to victory as a flailing Nikki Haley vows to stay in the race feels numbing. A desensitized person, me, would even call it boring if it weren't so equally horrifying. So it's under this heady dread that I learned that Jon Stewart is returning to The Daily Show, where he'll host [Monday nights and for the duration of the 2024 election](. Implicit in that scheduling is the notion that Stewart will offer something valuable to this election cycle. I'm not so sure. Stewart was at the top of his game in the 2000s and early 2010s. He skewered an America that had seen the lies and plunder of the Bush era and then turned his ire to Fox News during Obama's tenure. Stewart's analysis has seemed less trenchant in the Trump era, if not [outright misguided](. So in 2024, do Americans really have an appetite for self-serious gotcha moments wherein a famous white man treats voters who don't vote the way he does with such sneering condescension? That kind of comedy, for me, hits like a relic, something instantly outdated and naive. But [what do you think of Stewart's return](? —Inae Oh Advertisement [The Truce]( [Top Story] [Top Story]( [Two Impeachments, Four Indictments, and One Step Closer to Regaining the Presidency]( How Donald Trump dominated in New Hampshire. BY ABBY VESOULIS SPONSORED CONTENT BY HEIFER INTERNATIONAL   Start the New Year with Hope (and Heifer) Give a family around the world the helping hand they need going into the new year. When you give to Heifer International, you provide families the resources, education, and opportunity to thrive — ensuring they leave hunger and poverty in 2023. [Give today and make a difference for a lifetime.]( [Trending] [How the right uses the bogeyman of "DEI" to call for upending civil rights law]( BY ISABELA DIAS   [There is a very good reason why Donald Trump thinks everything is rigged]( BY DAVID CORN   [Nancy Mace flip flops once again and endorses...Donald Trump]( BY JULIANNE MCSHANE   [Oil firms target rural communities again, now for lithium mining]( BY KATIE MYERS Advertisement [The Truce]( [Special Feature] [Special Feature]( [Elon Musk’s Texas takeover]( How the world’s richest man transformed the Lone Star State into “the modern incarnation of the company town.” BY ABBY VESOULIS; PHOTOGRAPHY BY CHRISTOPHER LEE [Fiercely Independent] Support from readers allows Mother Jones to do journalism that doesn't just follow the pack. [Donate]( Did you enjoy this newsletter? Help us out by [forwarding]( it to a friend or sharing it on [Facebook]( and [Twitter](. [Mother Jones]( [Donate]( [Donate Monthly]( [Subscribe]( This message was sent to {EMAIL}. To change the messages you receive from us, you can [edit your email preferences]( or [unsubscribe from all mailings.]( For advertising opportunities see our online [media kit.]( Were you forwarded this email? [Sign up for Mother Jones' newsletters today.]( [www.MotherJones.com]( PO Box 8539, Big Sandy, TX 75755