Maher: Democrats lost due to ‘anti-common sense agenda’
Comedian and television personality Bill Maher blamed the Democratic party's "aggressively anti-common sense agenda" for losing The White House, both chambers of Congress and the Supreme Court.
"I will conclude by saying: the reason I'm so mad at the Democrats is because, as a voter, the issues that were important to me were democracy and the environment and now, there's no one to champion or defend either of them because you, with your aggressively anti-common sense agenda and sh-- exclusionary attitude, blew it," Maher said on his show "Real Time with Bill Maher" Friday night.
"You lost everything: House, Senate, White House, Supreme Court and left us completely unprotected and ready to be violated," he added.
Maher's comments come as President-elect Trump is set to return to the White House, both the Senate and House are GOP-controlled, and the Supreme Court has a 6-3 conservative supermajority. Democrats have been pointing fingers since their stinging losses following Election Day.
For some, the party’s woes revolve around ineffective messaging on kitchen-table economic issues, like inflation, wages and the accelerating trend of wealth inequality. For others, the trouble stems from the explosive debate over the Israel-Hamas war. For still others, the problems relate to culture war battles, including that over transgender rights.
Maher also hit Democrats by suggesting that they failed to relate to voters.
"The basis for Democratic campaigns has become: 'we're the smart people, that we know from the get-go, no need to look into that,'" Maher said.
"Maybe take the clothes pins off your noses and actually converse with the other half of the country. Stop screaming at people to get with the program and instead make a program worth getting with," Maher said.