Bill Maher didn’t hold back when criticizing Democrats after their disastrous 2024 election performance. On "Real Time," he accused them of "digging" deeper into the hole they’re already in.
"Talk about doubling down on what got you f---ed in the first place," Maher said during his Friday night monologue. "Even when they admit liberals should stop calling Trump voters stupid, it’s always with an unspoken ‘but they are stupid.’ Bad news: stupidity isn’t exclusive."
He mocked progressive symbols like "Queers for Palestine" t-shirts and post-pandemic mask-wearing. "You can't define a woman. ‘Person who menstruates’? Schools and colleges are a joke now, and you just lost a crazy contest to an actual crazy person," he quipped.
Maher highlighted polling showing Biden as "too liberal" and calls for Kamala Harris to distance herself from the far left. "What a shocker," he said sarcastically. "People obsessed with race and sex blame racism and sexism for their losses. Didn’t we elect a Black president already? Hillary got 3 million more votes than Trump. The voters aren’t living in a patriarchal, racist nightmare."
It's amazing how an election loss, even as big as this one, still doesn't put a dent in the thinking that lost it. pic.twitter.com/6yjqldcDhQ
— Bill Maher (@billmaher) November 16, 2024
He compared Democrats to a "royal family" ruined by intellectual incest. "Maybe take the clothespins off your noses and talk to the other half of the country," he suggested. "Stop screaming at people and make a program they actually want to join."
Maher pointed to backlash against Rep. Seth Moulton, D-Mass., for opposing biological males in women’s sports. Moulton’s campaign manager quit over his comments. "This is the left’s problem in a nutshell," Maher declared. "Try making being too woke a cancelable offense for once."
"Let that guy go!" he urged. "America needs a center-left party that doesn’t make voters want to punch them in the face."
Maher ended on a frustrated note. "Democracy and the environment mattered to me as a voter. Now there’s no one defending either," he said. "You blew it with your anti-common sense agenda and exclusionary attitude. House, Senate, White House, Supreme Court—gone. You left us completely unprotected."