The issue is Mahre and how his show affects the left. His jokes against the right sting and the ones against the left are inconsequentially self deprecating as the left can’t laugh at itself or anything.
I mentioned Newsom’s appearance. Then There’s John McWhorter. I remember him being very popular on Fox News when he was peddling a book on racism 20 years ago. UC Berkeley. Now he’s on the tube dissing Trump in every way possible. We can’t compete with these wordsmiths. Throw in the hand gestures for distracting and a naive public you’ve got a recipe for communism. Don’t forget the accepted violence towards Teslas nd Trump’s life.
Maher is actually pretty hard on the Left sometimes. But he’s not funded by the government like NPR is.
I have no doubt that Maher and other centrist Dems are gearing up to wrap Newsome in the cloak of a “reasonable” centrist, which he really isn’t. He’s as bad as they come, but he’ll run as a Bill Clinton centrist. Probably even play the saxophone on TV.