Comedian Bill Maher said the Democratic Party had to look in the mirror and that focusing on woke issues most voters don’t care about had cost them the 2024 presidential election.
“Democrats have become like a royal family that, because of so much incest, has unfortunately had children who are r——d,” Maher said to audience applause.
“And the same thing can happen to ideas if they are also conceived in an atmosphere of intellectual incest. Maybe take the clothespins off your noses and actually converse with the other half of the country,” Maher added.
“Stop screaming at people to get with the program and instead make a program worth getting with.”
Maher zeroed in on Democrats’ long-running fascination with transgender issues and in the party’s canonical insistence that biological men should be allowed to compete in women’s sports.
After President-elect Donald Trump trounced Vice President Kamala Harris last week, Massachusetts Democratic Rep. Seth Moulton said he didn’t want his two young daughters “getting run over on a playing field by a formerly male athlete” — a statement that promptly led to the resignation of one of his top aides.
“Let me make this as plain as I can to the smart people — the campaign manager who resigned, yeah, let that person go. Marginalize that guy,” Maher sniffed.
The comedian noted statistics showing that Hispanic Americans were considerably more supportive of increased border security than progressive white Americans and that black Americans were less concerned about racism than progressive white Americans.
“The votes are in — they don’t want your pity, and black people can’t afford to indulge rich white people’s need to endlessly flagellate themselves.
“They just want prices to go down and good jobs and the police, when you call them,” Maher said.