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Bill Maher to Republicans: Don’t Blame Liberals, ‘Trump is Your Problem’
http://www.mediaite.com/online/bill-maher-to-republicans-dont-blame-liberals-trump-is-your-problem/by Sam Reisman
On Real Time Friday night, Bill Maher shredded the notion that liberals were somehow to blame for the ascendance of Donald Trump
Maher took aim at a host of “think pieces” propelled by the dubious thesis that liberals’ “condescension and political correctness forced otherwise reasonable people into Trump’s hateful embrace.”
Trump voters, he said sarcastically, “would vote rationally if not for overbearing liberals, scientists, and historians and nutritionists telling real Americans that they’re dumb. It hurts their feelings when we insult their values with our facts.”
“I’m sorry you find it irritating when liberals point out that global warming exists or that racism exists or that gay people exist. But here’s the thing: You people were wrong about all that,” Maher said.
Liberals were to blame for many things, he averred — such as the man-bun and gluten free cupcakes. But conservatives allergic to facts and impermeable to reason, propelled by an implacable hatred of Muslims and Mexicans, are to blame to for The Donald, said Maher.
Maher pointed to his own record of mocking political incorrectness, observing that the progressive left is prone to outrageous overreaches and overreactions, but “none of that justifies embracing a dangerous buffoon simply because his lack of political correctness is cathartic. Trump is your problem. But somehow the party of personal responsibility doesn’t want to take responsibility for this one.”
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