I just watch Maher for the first time in about a month last weekend and yeah, I have to agree. shyt is terrible.
I kind of agreed with him when I said all the progressive vs establishment Democrat infighting, just ahead of a damn national election, is no good. I even agreed that the progressive Democrats, as much as I do support them and their policies, should sit back and learn Congrss before they try to change the party. I agreed they are not showing the same maturity in accomplishing their goals as their older counterparts and that the in-fighting is only helping Trump, not minorities or the working class.
But to now equate Omar and the squad with right wing white supremacist mass killers and terrorists for criticizing Israel policy towards Palestinians is Fox News, Trumpian level bullshytting, smearing, and deflecting.
Maher is a case study of how even "liberal" white men can be easily manipulated into the right wing once their egos and overall sense of superiority is challenged. A case study of how race takes precedence over policy, ideology, and everything else in the minds of white voters once they feel threatened in anyway.
Maher was all cool being Democrat when the face and minds of the party were mostly "good" white men in suits and being liberal was all about shytting on Bush, shytting on Bible thumpers, and being an edgy pot head. Now that the face and minds of the party is becoming young minorities speaking out against white supremacy, white power, human rights violations, and civil rights violations by white men--and doing so with serious conviction not just to gain an audience--now hes annoyed with these kids and wants out. He's becoming like every other sensitive white man who now perceives the Democrat party as "anti-white" once young folks with greater ideals, taking on white supremacy and complicit fake liberal white people like Maher join the party.