Maher Bemoans Lack of Political Civility: ‘When You Act Like an Asshole, You’re a Hero’

It might seem weird to hear this message from someone as outspoken as Bill Maher, but the HBO host tonight called for a return to civility in American politics.

He said Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton should agree to congratulate the other if they win the election because America’s “basic rules of conduct” are “all going away.”

And Maher did not just say this is a problem on the right. He criticized Ruth Bader Ginsburg for lashing out at Trump when she’s supposed to be independent of the political goings-on in America, and he also swiped at Alan Grayson for how he’s acted over the past few years.

He did also invoke birtherism and lots of other nasty Republican attacks on Obama before saying that “this election is a referendum on decency.”

And you know those videos of parliaments in other countries fighting that we occasionally see and get a laugh from? Well, Maher said that’s where America’s headed.

Watch above, via HBO.

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