an example of early political humour is this statement I found in an 1802 newspaper that I had in a collection of old newspapers when I was a teenager: An elephant had died in a zoo recently and they commented on it by saying "The late elephant reminds us of the federalists in that it carried great weight but was of little use in the community"
That same paper had a leter to the editor berating Jefferson as "the worst president this republic has seen" (which wasn't really saying much as there had only been 2 other presidents to compare him with).

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