Maher says Dems lost due to their 'anti-common sense agenda': You 'left us completely unprotected'

Comedian and TV host Bill Maher took aim at the Democratic Party for what he called their “aggressively anti-common sense agenda,” resulting in their losing the White House, the Senate and the House earlier this month. 

“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 HBO 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.

Democrats have been in something of a circular firing squad, pointing fingers at who or what is to blame for their loss. Was it President Joe Biden’s refusal to drop out of the race until mid-summer? Or those who decided to push him out of the race, or else? Or Vice President Kamala Harris’s unwillingness or inability to explain all of her apparent flip-flops, such as on fracking, open borders and the war in Gaza? 

“For some,” according to The Hill, “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 accused Democrats of failing 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,'” he 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.

Back in September, Maher predicted on his show that Trump would lose the election. “I just think he’s going to lose.” Just before saying that, Maher claimed he was right when he had predicted during the last election that Trump wasn’t going to leave the White House even though he had lost the election. 

He said, “I think I have the credibility for this prediction because I have been called a Trump alarmist for a very long time. They were wrong. I was right. He wasn’t going to leave power,” Maher said, even though Trump left right on schedule in January of 2021.