Bill Maher Calls Left ‘Aggressively Anti-Common Sense’ at Aspen Ideas Festival, Predicts Trump ‘Very Likely Will Win’
Zachary LeemanJun 26th, 2024, 1:43 p
Bill Maher ripped into the “aggressively anti-common sense” left and casually predicted a Donald Trump victory during an appearance this week at the Aspen Ideas Festival.
Maher participated in a talk with English journalist Tina Brown in which he called out modern political tribalism and at one point ripped into younger liberals so much that Brown had to tell the comedian and Real Time host he’s “very cantankerous” as he continued on.
Maher argued Democrats are doing themselves no favors ahead of November’s presidential election.
“Part of it the left has to own. They are aggressively anti-common sense,” he said. “The Democrats keep running on this one idea, saying to the American people, ‘You can’t possibly think you can do worse than Donald Trump.’ And they keep saying, ‘Yes, we can. Yes, we can.'”
Maher at one point asked the audience if any of them were Trump supporters. The room stayed quiet. Maher argued there were absolutely Trump supporters in the audience, but they weren’t comfortable coming forward as Trump supporters in that group. The same awkward silence would be the response at a NASCAR race if he were to ask for people to admit being to being supporters of President Joe Biden.
This sort of tribalism, he argued, is leading to more extremism in politics.
Maher’s rant against the left’s role in feeding tribalism led him to younger liberals, a group he’s often open about his disdain for.
“Tear down statues of Lincoln? Maybe give communism another shot? Get rid of the border patrol? Get rid of capitalism? White supremacy has never been worse? Gender is always just a social construct? It’s okay to have penises in the women’s swimming pool, in women’s prisons?’ No, it’s not that I’m old; it’s that your ideas are stupid,” Maher said.
Brown attempted to jump in at one point, saying Maher is “very cantankerous” on this subject, but the comedian continued unbothered.
Maher also at one point echoed his recent admission that he believes Biden is headed towards a major loss. The comedian was referring to “as good as it gets Republicans,” meaning Republicans who have stood against Trump’s claims of election fraud, naming Republicans like Liz Cheney, Mike Pence, and Mitt Romney.
“That’s as good as it gets. If you can’t talk to those people, you’re just abandoning the country to half the people who are even worse, who are going to vote for Trump this next time and they are and he very likely will win and then what are we going to do?” he said. “I think we should keep the dialogue open.”
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