On Wednesday evening, John Kasich triumphantly walked onto The Late Show with Stephen Colbert’s stage, his arms flailing, his feet enormous. Nobody thought he would make it to a late-night talk show, but here he was, as secretly bigoted and doofy as ever.
Kasich’s team has publicized his persona as “the guy who just wants us to get along”— which works well until one pays an ounce of attention to what he’s saying and realizes that he is basically as misogynistic and dense as anyone else in the field. Colbert, to his credit, did not let his above-the-parties shtick slide.
After Colbert congratulated him on coming in second in New Hampshire, Kasich responded with a line that was surely supposed to be delivered with more of a wink:
“You know I won in Dixville Notch, I beat Trump with 60 percent of the vote,” he said, referring to the town of 12 that votes first in the state.