I was worrying about the Bill Maher thing just this morning --- talk about vulnerable! He's been going more conservative lately as leftists get more and more fascist.
I would disagree there. Maher is, has been, and always will be a real liberal. Where he disagrees with the Regressive Left is primarily on issues where they are simply not liberal.
He's virulently anti-PC and Identity Politics. He's virulently pro-freedom of expression, even if he (horror of horrors) disagrees with what is being said. He's against the illiberal leftist authoritarianism that has infected so many of our campuses. He's realistic about Islamists and Jihadists and hasn't obediently turned them into his pet constituent oppressed religion. Those are all the antithesis of what the Regressives are doing. He's just a (real) liberal with a quick mind and a sharp tongue.
I can certainly understand why both the Right and the Regressives dislike him so much. I disagree with him on some stuff, but I'm sure glad he's around.
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