Maher Battles Republican Guests: The Problem Isn’t Trump, It’s Your ‘Fact-Free Racist’ Base!

Bill Maher tonight clashed with Rick Santorum and CNN conservative commentator Tara Setmayer over the fact that Donald Trump may not be the real problem with the GOP…

Santorum and Setmayer first fought between themselves, seeing as how Santorum’s thrown in with Trump and Setmayer’s appalled by him. Setmayer called Trump a con artist and Santorum insisted he’s a sincere man with a couple of minor flaws.

But then Maher told both of them the problem isn’t really Trump, because the Republicans “handcuffed themselves to a dead hooker… but the head hooker is not really Trump, it’s the voters.”

He said it’s the “fact-free racist rednecks” in the GOP base that’s the problem, because they’ve latched onto the party now. Setmayer insisted that there are vicious, crazy left-wing anarchists too.

Maher cried that that’s a “stupid false equivalency” and said that kind of thinking isn’t as pervasive on the left as racist thinking is on the right.

Watch above, via HBO.

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