I hope he is security conscious. Being perceived as a high profile traitor would not be good.
Leftists are similar to Muslims when handling those that attempt to depart the Religion.
Maher is correct about the name calling, of which the Nazis likened Jews to rats with large noses. Secondly, I would guess that Maher lost relatives in the Holocaust.
Like the organized crime movies where the guy says “You can’t quit. We don’t exactly have a retirement plan.”
(Nicolas Cage 2023 movie Retirement Plan and others such as Al Pacino in Carlito’s Way who played the role of the endangered “retiree”).