Comedy Central'sThe Daily Show has always been at the forefront of honest, common sense-based satirical reporting. The thing about satire is that, while it's meant to use humor and irony to exaggerate peoples' stupidity or ignorance (usually about political topics), it's hard to do so when irony and exaggeration are the very definition of what those people are all about. What people in particular? Sigh. Why, everyone's favorite group of alleged insurrectionists, of course. This is what sent Daily Show correspondent Jordan Klepper (pictured above) further and further into red hat territory last year, and why last night we all got a direct peek into that world during the half-hour special, Trevor Noah Presents: Jordan Klepper Fingers the Pulse – Into the MAGAverse. Let's see what we learned.
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