Bill Maher, an ‘Old-Fashioned Liberal’ Scourge of the Woke

For a man with a reputation as a scourge of the woke, Bill Maher can be harsh on Republicans. Democratic politicians “are not really crazy, by and large,” he insists. “AOC is a little out there. Ilhan Omar, not my favorite. There are some people, like Cori Bush, but they’re still not nearly as crazy as the crazies on the right—Lauren Boebert, Marjorie Taylor Greene, people like that.” He sums up the worldview of those two GOP congresswomen as follows: “I don’t believe in democracy. I’m in a cult. I’ll do what Trump says. That’s the No. 1 priority and that’s the God I serve.”