Posted on 09/13/2019 1:58:44 PM PDT by lowbridge
HBO host Bill Maher derided 2020 Democrats'apparent shift to the left during the primary season Thursday, suggesting it was a plague on the progressive movement.
Its not good. Its kind of a cancer on progressivism," Maher said on "Morning Joe" hours before the third Democratic primary debate.
MSNBC host Joe Scarborough had asked the comedian about the 2020 field's criticism of former President Obama: "How maddening is that to you that they're having this race to the far left?"
Several media personalities criticized the 2020 field after the second primary debate when most candidates knocked the Obama administration on issues like immigration and health care as a way to attack the frontrunner, former Vice President Joe Biden.
Biden has stood by the previous administration's Affordable Care Act as other candidates have pursued more aggressive reforms like "Medicare for All."
Maher warned that Democrats risked hurting their electoral prospects by moving so far to the left, saying that Democrats would only lose if they are "scarier or crazier" than Trump.
"If you run on taking away peoples health care and taxing them too much and taking away all of their guns and trans women get abortion rights -- I think that came up in the first debate, I dont think you are going to win this election," he added.
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Maher believes most of the same things, but he’s still clear-headed enough to know what sells and what does not. The woke left doesn’t even care, anything they don’t agree with is just bigotry.
Bill Maher and that fat film guy are warning the left that they are too radical to win the election.
It’s fascinating that these two seem to be closer to reality than all those progressives in the media echo chamber.
Absolutely
Bill Maher says the participants should lie like dogs, and he'll swear to all of it in the media...
I give Maher credit when it’s due. He’s one of the few leftists willing to call out radical Islam.
Maher is pretending that he doesn’t know what Progressivism really is.
A blind squirrel . . . .
A cancer on a cancer is a derivative disease.
“Maher is in favor of those policies, he just wants to be more subtle about it.”
EXACTLY! Subtle: keeping quiet about it or even lying about it until AFTER elected ...
“Joe was trying to keep lid on it some extent which is why they started shredding him.”
Jo has also been jumping on the bandwagon for whatever the lastest looney-leftist position du jour is, but doesn’t seem to fully understand what it is he’s adopting or the implications for him as a supposed “moderate” ...
Progressivism leads to Totalitarianism. Maher is what he is.. hollow.
...saying that Democrats would only lose if they are “scarier or crazier” than Trump.
So sayeth Little Billy Maher man among men, sage of sages, comedic mastermind.
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