In his new stand-up special, Bill Maher has never been quite so defensive and bitter about where he stands in relation to the next generation. CraigSJ writes
Photo: Greg Endries/HBO America is broken, but Bill Maher intends to put it back together again. It’s an ancient liberal proverb now. Maher was there in 1999 when the national obsession with Bill Clinton’s sexual improprieties drove a solid year of nightly news coverage, insisting that it isn’t a big deal if the commander-in-chief gets domed in the Oval Office. He was there in 2000 when Gore won the popular vote but lost the electoral college, poking fun at those contested Florida tallies.
In the 21st century, as host of HBO’s Real Time With Bill Maher, the comic increasingly approaches the quirks of the left with the same zeal that made his jabs at Christian conservatives sting in the Bush years. This has earned respect from right-wing personalities, and it has frustrated people on the left who lurk him begrudgingly, characterizing the shift in Maher’s commentary as your typical case of getting old and losing your edge.
#Adulting is very sure of itself, but it’s not so sure what makes its subjects tick. The special’s core fallacy is the idea that woke leftists picking complicated fights about gender and reassessing the sins of complex figures in American history pose as much of a threat to the future of democracy as people who supported overturning the election in 2020.
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