There’s been no shortage of headlines the past week speculating about a potential Hillary Clinton 2020 Presidential run. While there’s a 99.9% chance that the headlines are just your usual sensationalism (that every conservative in their right mind prays is true), she’s not even the craziest candidate being floated to defeat President Donald Trump in 2020. (RELATED: Donald Trump Jr., James Woods Hilariously Respond to Reports Hillary is Running in 2020).
As if drafting the woman who lost to Donald Trump four years prior isn’t obviously a losing strategy, comedian Bill Maher has an even crazier idea….. drafting the guy who couldn’t beat Barack Obama. To be fair, the comments came during an HBO comedy special and were in part to illustrate just how much he hates Trump (that he would choose Romney over him). “I would gladly give Romney $1M tomorrow if he would take over America. Swear to god!” Maher said. “I will become a Mormon, how about that?”
The million dollars was a reference to the fact that he donated $1 million to Obama’s 2012 reelection campaign (and famously remarked that it looks like Obama blew the money on drugs after Romney crushed the first Presidential debate).
After his comments about Romney, Maher went off on the Trump administration, calling Attorney General Jeff Sessions a “Confederate soldier,” Education Secretary Betsy DeVos as “mentally challenged,” and VP Mike Pence as a “loathsome Christian hypocrite.”
But elsewhere in the show, Maher did acknowledge the crazies in his own Party. While an avowed Leftist himself, Maher has recently found solace with some conservatives, particularly when it comes to the issue of free speech and free expression (which is increasingly being challenged by the Left). Maher would know, given that he used to host a show called “Politically Incorrect,” which was canceled for being too politically incorrect.
“[Democrats] just gotta win; we cannot blow more elections,” he warned. “So, next time, a little more about ‘We’re going to bring your jobs back’ and a little less about ‘We’re going to make you pee next to a guy in a dress.'” A bit ironic coming from Maher, given that he said he’d be OK with a massive recession if it meant it would damage Trump.
On the issue of Islam, Maher said “This ridiculous fetishizing of Islam on the part of liberals has got to stop. I’m not anti-Muslim; I’m anti-misogyny; I thought feminism was a thing with liberals.” “Yes, I’m against it when they throw a tarp over a woman like a motorboat. Have you ever tried one of those things on? It’s stifling,” Maher described of the burqa. “Men make women walk around all day in a fucking voting booth so [men] don’t have to be responsible for their erections. Your move, #MeToo.”
Identity politics are alienating the Right – and even pushing some millennials (who are notorious for leaning Left), to the Right. According to a recent report, “While millennials still prefer the Democratic party over the Republicans, that support is tanking. In just two years, it dropped sharply from 55% to 46%.” And where did they go? Of the nine percentage point decline, two-thirds, or six percentage points, moved to the Right. When it comes to white male millennials, Democrats polled in that demographic 12 percentage points above Republicans in 2016. (RELATED: Washington Post Says White Democrat Men Are ‘Endangered’).
Just two years later, white male millennials favor Republicans by 11 percentage points, a staggering 23 point move.
And for that seismic shift, Democrats can blame the alienating effects of their own identity politics.
