no. he doesn’t get it.
what he does get is that he knows christians won’t kill him for being an atheist. he lives in a christian country and can make fun of them when he so choosess, and none of them issue fatwas against him and try to kidnap him and behead him.
this is what maher gets. he can keep doing what he does in a christian country.
Maher has learned about the term a true elitist like Rose cannot. The term is ‘useful idiot’. The true elites never think any of this will come home to them. Maher is beginning to see it.