The Heir condemns, in no uncertain terms, Colbert's contention that Trump is the disease rather than a symptom.  This condemnation the Heir heralds above what he sees as the progressive descent back into Ed Snowdenism.  Here's how he sees it.  It was the progressives looking the other way when it became clear Ed Snowden only wanted a personality cult and was not a true whistleblower.  This fostered an ends-justifies-the-means mentality among most progressives which he sees as a form of personal corruption.  This means that Ed Snowden is the de facto leader of the progressive movement.  And since then the Heir's never stopped seeing the progressive movement as ultimately personally corrupt.  Sure he put aside his reservations when Trump won, but in the past week Colbert essentially helped the progressives compartmentalize Ed Snowden back into the past so that they rule out ever doing a fearless moral inventory politically.  This arrogance and personal corruption the Heir sees as the ultimate reason why Trump won, and *this* is the disease, he says, of which *Trump* is a symptom.  The Heir also sees the progressives perpetuating their failures in the future, which might explain why they're predicting Trump victories left and right in the foreseeable future (referring to Democracy Now and Bill Maher as examples, 7/6/17).  They just don't want to take responsibility for the past, which the Heir believes they could certainly do, since it's not too late.  But until they do, the Heir reasserts the none-of-the-above **political skepticism** in the Bachelor that has been there since 12/2/06, nearly 11 years.  And in doing so, the Heir breaks ties to any perception of any kind of alliance with any progressive group whatsoever, outside of essential economics.  The Heir will still continue to keep Funny Named Care alive, even if that means 50 State Single Payer depending on what happens next week, and he will help an affordability movement emerge in the next several months as a result.  The Heir loves his Country, the good ole US of A, saying this just days after its 231st birthday.  The Heir will continue to tune into Colbert and Oliver, etc., from time to time, but he no longer feels they can provide therapy for him with Trump.  This the Heir has to do himself, so now he gets to say the below:

"No, Colbert, you're wrong.  Trump is the *symptom* and not the *disease*."