The slogan has to put the public first in some form. This put the emphasis on Hillary and her achievements/ascendancy
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"Yes we can." one most memorable slogans of all time, was a callback to "We the people."

Looks… cheap somehow.

Yeah, this feels that we're repeating something here.
Maybe hyperbole, but It's got an Archduke Franz Ferdinand sense to it.

I think we'll be safe from it. Trump's devastation that is.

I thought what was great about that monologue was that you could clearly see the pain/worry/devastation in Colbert.
Yeah, he said everything was gonna be OK. But, I think like everyone, he was saying that out of hope.