Bill Maher Warns Dems Woke ‘True Believers’ Are Making Them ‘Irrelevant Party’

Bill Maher warned Democrats that woke “true believers” could turn them into an “irrelevant party” shortly after his visit to the White House to meet with President Donald Trump.

On the latest episode of the Club Random podcast, Maher was joined by musician Winston Marshall and, at one point, he laid into “woke” Democrats, including those “still wearing masks,” referring to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Maher said:

There will always be the people in the rear guard, just like there are people who are still wearing masks, you know? Once you start something, you get a certain amount of cult followers for anything and then the true believers never die. I mean a lot of people would say right now the Democratic Party is still in that mode, which is going to render them possibly an irrelevant party if they don’t change.

The Real Time host told Democrats to drop the “woke baggage” and lean more towards “centrism.”

Maher called himself an “old school liberal,” which he argued is often the “opposite” of “woke” Democrats, noting an emphasis today on identity politics.

“Woke would like to believe they’re some sort of extension of liberalism, but they’re not,” he said. “They’re usually something that’s quite opposite. Liberalism was we should have a colorblind society and not see race at all. That’s not what the woke believe. They’re the opposite. Let’s put race at the front of everything.”

Maher’s comments follow him having dinner with the president in the White House, a move that’s earned him some criticism from fellow Trump critics. Maher called Trump “gracious” during their meeting, but pushed back on multiple points, including the president’s talk of a third term and his administration’s Iran nuclear negotiations.

Watch above via Club Random.