HBO host Bill Maher didn’t hesitate to criticize Democrats for their “doubling down” on politics that led to recent election night defeats.
In a lengthy rant about the current state of the party, the comedian accused some Democrats of being “stupid” and others of being too liberal after Vice President Kamala Harris lost to President-elect Donald He condemned those who blamed racism and sexism for the cause. Mr. Trump.
“Someone has to tell the usual suspects on the left the saying, ‘Once you’re in a hole, stop digging.’ Don’t ‘keep digging.’ Talk about doubling down on what made you crazy in the first place,” Maher said in a real-time public monologue with Bill Maher on Friday.
“Even the one concession I’ve heard from some on the losing side, that liberals should stop saying that Trump supporters are stupid, is with some kind of implicit parenthesis. I know it is, but don’t say it,” he added.
Maher then fired back at “stupid” Democrats.
“The bad news is, they don’t have a monopoly on fools,” he said. “Two years after the pandemic ends, you’re wearing Queer for Palestine T-shirts and masks. And you can’t define ‘women’ or ‘persons who menstruate.’ You have made a laughing stock of schools and universities with your teaching union education party. You just lost a crazy contest with a real crazy person. ”
Maher continued. “You like to speak truth to power, and we should always do that, but you have completely lost the ability to speak truth to bulls.”
In his next attack on Democrats, Maher claimed that the party’s “wakeism” was the beginning of the end for Harris’ chances.
“Democratic pollster Blueprint told Democrats several months ago that black voters who identify as liberal are more likely to think the president is too liberal than too conservative,” he said. “And voters didn’t just want Harris to distance herself from Biden, they wanted her to distance herself from the Portlandia landscape that the Democratic Party as a whole believes it has become. It was also revealed.
Digging deeper into identity politics, Maher described the Democrats she voted for as “a bunch of entitled mean girls who complain about their privilege and try to make ‘fetch’ happen.”
In his final salvo, Maher bristled at suggestions that Harris might have lost because of her race or gender.
“How shocking that people who see everything through the lens of race and gender would attribute an election loss to racism and sexism,” he said. “Yeah, if we weren’t hopelessly enlightened, we’d be electing a black president by now. Oh, what was that? Oh, yeah, and we re-elected him. Maybe I missed it because it wasn’t on TikTok.”
Regarding sexism, Maher said, “Hillary got 3 million more votes than Trump, which in a normal country would be a victory.” It wasn’t 21st century sexism that prevented a woman from becoming president. , it was the Electoral College.”
