In a rare television interview to promote a new oral history of The Daily Show, Jon Stewart shared his post-election thoughts with Charlie Rose on CBS This Morning. As “surprised” as he was by the results, Stewart said, “I don’t believe we are a fundamentally different country today than we were two weeks ago. The same country with all its grace and flaws, and volatility, and insecurity, and strength, and resilience exists today as existed two weeks ago. The same country that elected Donald Trump elected Barack Obama. I feel badly for the people for whom this election will mean more uncertainly and insecurity. But I also feel like this fight has never been easy.”

Stewart threw doubt on the idea that President-Elect Donald Trump could “drain the swamp” of Washington as promised because, “McConnell and Ryan, those guys are the swamp.” As much as Trump was “repudiation” of Democrats, he said he was also a repudiation of Republicans. “But they will reap the benefit of his victory, in all of their cynicism,” Stewart said. The former host also warned liberals against turning Trump voters into a “monolith.” He said, “There are guys in my neighborhood that I love, that I respect, that I think have incredible qualities who are not afraid of Mexicans, and not afraid of Muslims, and not afraid of blacks. They’re afraid of their insurance premiums. In the liberal community, you hate this idea of creating people as a monolith. Don’t look as Muslims as a monolith. They are the individuals and it would be ignorance. But everybody who voted for Trump is a monolith, is a racist. That hypocrisy is also real in our country.”