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.
“It’s not good. It’s 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 people’s 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 don’t think you are going to win this election," he added.
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Maher is in favor of those policies, he just wants to be more subtle about it.
He’s a RACIST
The truth will set you free...and get your poll numbers down below the teens LOL!!!
BEAT ME TO IT!!!!
Bill helped Weaponize the Left.
Now he can live with it before they haul him out for not doing what THEY say.
The Khmer Rouge is coming....
Progressivism is a cancer on government and society.
And a failure at that.
That right there is funny.
Far-left policies are not the ‘cancer’ of progressives. It is the inexorable end of them. I suspect Billy knows this and wants his side to hush so they can win.
“Maher is in favor of those policies, he just wants to be more subtle about it.”
Exactly. That is a big difference this time. The resist jerks have forced the Rats to admit what they really believe. Joe was trying to keep lid on it some extent which is why they started shredding him.
The far left programs ARE progressivism.
No, they’re the very definition of “progressivism.”
Those far left policies ARE Progressivism. Like most Democrats, they have no idea of what they speak.
Think about it this way...Liberals(like my family,) are now the extreme right of the Democrat Party.
I don’t think so.
I think he was PROGRAMMED to hate the right early on in life and has Never really sat down and figured out what he really believes.
It’s more common on both sides with strong minded parents than one would think.
I’m not saying he’s John Wayne.
But I think if this moron did an honest self assessment, he would see he is NOT the average dem anymore.
And YES, I think his seeing the vehement hatred for Israel in that party is having an effect on him.
THAT being said, he IS an A##HOLE and can be CRUEL and PETTY.
So #### him.
Mahar is being very smart wouldn’t you say?
Yep. My Dad, lifetime Dem us thinking of leaving the party.
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