During his show Friday, late-night talk show host Bill Maher took on some of the glaring differences between the Democrat and Republican parties.
The “Real Time” host discussed the ramifications of the Jan. 6 riots while asserting that the Republicans are playing by a different set of rules, “heads we win, tails we coup.”
“Democracy isn’t the objective; liberty, peace, and prosperity are what we want the human condition to flourish. Rank democracy can thwart that,’” Maher said.
In the past, conservatives have used some of Maher’s material to build their case against the left. Some of the notable quotes espoused by Maher include him saying Democrats “suck the fun out of everything: Halloween, The Oscars, Childhood.” Maher has also taken on cancel culture, a stance popular with right-leaning commentators.
Maher also discussed the idea that President Biden somehow stole the 2020 Presidential election. The continuous declaration by conservatives is that Joe Biden “stole” the election and that there is rampant voter fraud.
Still, Maher states that Republicans need to understand that those claims have been debunked numerous times.
“In the circular logic of today’s right, the evidence that the election was stolen IS that they lost,” Maher said. “The evidence of voter fraud is that sometimes Democrats win. This is madness.”
Maher concludes that there has always been faith in the system regarding electoral losses despite the differences between Democrats and Republicans. The comedian adds that Democrats get things wrong, but states that Republicans who cannot deal with election losses are beginning to resemble military dictators.
“Neither ever really doubted that our system of accepting electoral loss was what made America different from so many countries who could never get that right,” Maher said.
“Conservatives now sound creepily like the generals in some country where they finally experimented with democracy for the first time and, well, they didn’t like it so much. ‘I’m afraid we let the voters decide, and they f’—ed up.’”
