On Monday, my colleague Nick Arama reported that Bill Maher stated on his podcast "Club Random" that he may be voting Republican for the first time in his life. While he claimed he was never a Democrat to begin with, he always caucused with them because they were "less scary and insane than the Republicans."
That has apparently flipped for Maher, who said "We're approaching that because they have gotten crazier, and that's a lot of what you're referencing. But I never said I left the party 'cause I wasn't there to begin with."
🚨NEW: Bill Maher suggests Dems getting so crazy he may end up voting Republican soon🚨
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"I never was a Democrat to begin with. I always, like, caucus with the Democrats and I generally vote for them — I think always vote for them."
"But I always look at it and, like, no, I'm… pic.twitter.com/epslBFbIno
Read: How Far Dems Have Fallen: Bill Maher Makes Surprising Statement About His Political Affiliation
The thing is, he's hardly the first Democrat (yeah, he's a Democrat) to say that. In fact, there's been an entire rash of Democrats meandering to the right because the left has, indeed, gotten insane.
And a lot of this revolves around the idea that they don't really have anything to offer except one thing, and one thing only.
They're anti-Trump.
That's pretty much it. They're the party of "not Trump," and with that comes an absolute resistance to anything and everything they think President Donald Trump represents. This includes Christianity, Western values, our military, Capitalism, and American patriotism.
In fact, I'm pretty sure this attitude has allowed the radicalism within the Democrat Party to flourish, as most of the moderates have vacated the D and swapped to the R just as Maher has because there's just nothing about the Democrat Party that's working.
And we don't have to guess what "hating Trump" looks like when it's in power.
Hating Trump never made gas cheaper.
It didn't make groceries cheaper.
It didn't make jobs easier to get.
It didn't reduce inflation.
It didn't lower crime.
It didn't secure our borders.
It didn't make the world safer.
It didn't make our enemies respect us.
In fact, it only seemed to empower an element in our society that wanted to tear this system we've been building together for generations down, and it spread multiple kinds of mind viruses that had people believing things both about society and themselves that are demonstrably untrue.
Being "anti-Trump" isn't a viable platform to base the entirety of your belief system on, because it's not really a platform at all. It's an emotion. If you let emotion dictate your entire life, then you're going to spiral and lose control. There are entire swaths of University students with badly cut hair, piercings, and anger issues that are proof of that. Emotion-based thinking has led to the destruction of would-be healthy marriages, bad business decisions, and yes, despotism.
You think communist revolutions were formed through logical, and fact-based thinking?
Trump has his issues, as all leaders do. I don't think everything he does is perfect, and you'll never see me put my full faith into a man, especially one at the height of Earthly power.
But Trump is not the epitome or embodiment of evil. He's not a horrible person, either. He's flawed, but I wouldn't say he's a negative on society. His work is proof positive of that, and while leftism does its absolute best to force people to believe things that aren't true, it's really hard to convince millions of people that something happening right before their eyes isn't happening at all.
Even if something does happen that ends up souring Trump in the eyes of many, such as the military action on Iran that has even the Republican Party split, we're still far better off than we were under the party of "not Trump," and disagreements with specific actions don't convince me, at least, that an entire rejection based on an emotional reaction is worth it.
Even with Trump's flaws, being anti-Trump just because isn't justified and until Democrats figure that out, they'll keep losing.
