Bill Maher warns that Dems will ‘be the Whigs’ as approval rating hits record low for party: ‘Never seen one this bad’

Fox News via NY Post ^ | 3/22/25 | Joseph A. Wulfsohn

[Libloather]

“Real Time” host Bill Maher warned Democrats that their party may face the same fate as the Whigs if they don’t embrace deregulation.

During Friday’s panel discussion, Maher sounded the alarm on the NBC poll that showed Democrats had only a 27% approval rating, a record low for the party.

“I’ve never seen one this bad,” Maher reacted.

Maher later cited the American Redistricting Project, which projected that Democrats will lose congressional seats in California, New York, Illinois, Minnesota, Rhode Island and Oregon by 2030 while Republicans will gain seats in Texas, Florida, Idaho and Utah.

“I mean, this looks like game over. And the reason why people are voting with their feet is a lot of what your book is about: taxes and regulation,” Maher said to New York Times columnist and “Abundance” co-author Ezra Klein. “I’ve certainly been screaming about it forever. I did three years with a sign here that said, ‘How long is it gonna take me to get my solar hooked up? Three years. Talking about it on television in this state, you couldn’t do it!”

“We’re taxed more than any other state. People are leaving these kind of states for places where they [don’t] feel the heavy breath of government on them…. It’s not that hard for Democrats to understand this, but they don’t. They seem to be incapable of doing anything about it,” he continued.

[Libloather]

Commie RATS have a strategy.

[Jonty30]

As their special interests splinters, they will need a new unifying message. Hopefully they will figure it out after we get the Constitutional Amendments we need.

[Liz]

History lesson——the Whigs in 1852 nominated Gen. Winfield Scott for president. The North and South had become so polarized over the slavery issue that the Whigs were no longer able to make a broad national appeal on the basis of “unalterable attachment to the Constitution and the Union.”

Scott collected just 42 electoral votes as many southern Whigs flocked to the banner of the states’ rights oriented Democratic Party. By 1854 most northern Whigs had joined the newly formed Republican Party. To the extent that the party continued to exist, it commanded support only in the border states.

Many of the last remaining Whigs found a niche in the Know-Nothing Party during the second
half of the 1850s and then backed the Constitutional Union Party as the country split apart in 1860.

[erlayman]

The Whigs without support for higher tariffs ? (which incidentally nearly destroyed the Republican party under McKinley as well). We’ll see how that goes in the next few months.

[cnsmom]

The Democrats are really making a mistake going after Tesla. Young millennials that have been raised in the global warming bubble really worship Tesla, they love the car and have the power walls too. It is a source of pride and part of their DNA now. They take these attacks very personally.Democrats are going to lose more and more to the Green Party in 2028.The insanity is too much for many of the millennials. These fires and radical left have made a huge mistake attacking Tesla. This tantrum of TDS might be the fatal wound for the democrat party. The millennials weren’t fooled by an incompetent Biden or a bumbling Kamala. This attack on Tesla is hurting young people and it is a rude awakening to a generation that has been composting and good stewards of the environment.

[GOPJ]

Many of the last remaining Whigs found a niche in the Know-Nothing Party during the second half of the 1850s...

Liz - that might be a great name for the current Democrat party - the 'know nothing' party. Kinda fits.

[GOPJ]

These fires and radical left have made a huge mistake attacking Tesla. This tantrum of TDS might be the fatal wound for the democrat party. The millennials weren’t fooled by an incompetent Biden or a bumbling Kamala.

Great point... Tesla owners aren't going to turn on a dime because thugs in the democrat party hate Elon.

[Candor7]

Their strategy is to release AOC as a Democrat sex goddess on an unsuspecting, innocent public , consisting of a genuinely populist American majority.

AOC is jumping and screaming at pubic town halls,literally unbunning her hair so her locks fly in the wind like Medusa, witnessed by her companion, the geriatric bongo master, Bernard Sanders of the Great White Northern porcupine Vermont proletariate.America sighs.

Soon the vacant leftist crowds AOC attracts will be screaming, "Strip, Angela, Strip.!" They are paid to burn TESLAS , so they deserve a side show.

Thoroughly bored Conservatives are already watching "Leave it to Beaver" reruns.They want to see AOC primary Up Chuck Schumer.

SUCH A WINNING STRATEGERY !"

[Libloather]

Has Trump caused the establishment Democratic Party to implode?

https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/5207965-has-trump-caused-the-democratic-party-to-implode/?tbref=hp

[sheana]

They’re winning! Chuck Schumer told me so.

[telescope115]

As deeply wounded as they are, I wouldn’t underestimate the dems’ ability to make a comeback. They need to be kept off balance, and Trump and Co. are just the people to do it.

[Liz]

perfect——know nothings

[38special]

They’re packing em in in Colorado evidently. Go figure.

[GeneralisimoFranciscoFranco]

Biden’s to the rescue! /sarc

[Bernard]

All well and good, but the crazy people and the people who need The Man to do for them have to go somewhere, and vote for something/somebody.

[Jan_Sobieski]

Colorado, a formerly red state, has been successfully Californicated

[SMARTY]

This last national election broke the back of the DNC, completely exposed MSM complicity in all Liberal misconduct and (for good measure) yanked the rug out from under Hollywood.

Liberal donors would look complicit AND stupid to continue supporting that trio! They all have a long walk home staring them in the face.

[ansel12]

The Whig Party only last 23 years from beginning to formal ending.

There was never a “the Know Nothing Party”.

It was actually the American Party, known as the Native American Party before 1855, are other parties only written about using a derogatory nickname?

[ansel12]

There was never a “the Know Nothing Party”.

It was actually the American Party, known as the Native American Party before 1855.

[HombreSecreto]

Since their party is now a party of trans people, they’re now the Wigs.