Democrats never saw Donald Trump’s landslide win coming.
Now everyone on the Left is trying to figure out what happened.
And Bill Maher warned Democrats not to miss this big lesson from Donald Trump’s victory.
Bill Maher’s warning to Democrats
Bill Maher’s been an outspoken critic of the excesses of the Left.
Maher warned Democrats that going all in on woke cancel culture, transgenderism, and open borders would cost the party dearly.
The bill for the Democrat Party’s turn to left-wing insanity came due on Election Night when Donald Trump.
Maher said the Left’s sanctimonious act wore thin and that they better come to grips with the fact that Donald Trump won a “mandate.”
“You can’t scream about democracy, and then have a guy run the table like this, and not say ‘Well it’s a mandate, right?” Maher asked the panel on his Real Time show.
Maher brought up Kamala Harris’ cameo on Saturday Night Live as an example of the closed-mindedness Maher believed hurt the Left, saying if one of the cast members supported Trump they would have kept silent out of fear of getting canceled.
“I saw Kamala was on SNL, as the losing candidate often is. I’m sure every single member of the SNL cast was a Harris supporter. What if one of them wasn’t? Would they have been comfortable saying so? I really don’t think so. That’s not a good place for us to be. That happens even more on the left. I remember when Elon Musk hosted. A number of the cast members, they didn’t want to deal with him,” Maher added.
Maher went on to say that when Elon Musk guest hosted the show, the cast shunned him despite the fact he’s one of the most brilliant men in human history.
Why did the cast shun Musk? Because Maher said they hated his politics.
Maher warned unless the Left practiced the tolerance they liked to preach they would keep losing elections.
“You could talk to one of the most interesting brilliant people that the world has ever produced. But you don’t to even deal with him? That’s what I hate about the left. You’re brats.” The issue with the left is you could be literally acknowledged to be one of the smartest people on Earth, but if you disagree with their dogma you’re dismissed as a ‘sexist’ ‘racist’ ‘bigot’. Until they change that, they’ll never win again,” Maher added.
The Left’s Joe Rogan problem
After the election, Democrats and their media allies lamented the fact that Donald Trump had a network of sympathetic podcasters like Joe Rogan.
Many on the Left wondered what they needed to do to create their own “Joe Rogan.”
But that missed the point.
Rogan was a former Bernie Sanders supporter who isn’t a conservative.
However, Rogan supports causes like free speech and opposes the transgender agenda and online censorship which “codes” him as being on the right.
The Atlantic’s Derek Thompson got to the heart of the matter when he said if the Left was going to police language, then they had to accept the fact that Joe Rogan and those in his orbit would gravitate to Trump.
“And if Democrats are going to be the party of “you really shouldn’t say that”and “actually the preferred term is” then one tradeoff is that you’re making it harder for some of these shoot-from-the-hip folks to feel like there’s space for them in your movement,” Thompson posted on social media.
