DAVID MARCUS: Bill Maher's no Republican, he's just a rare Democrat who thinks

Bill MaherBill Maher's "Real Time" amusement connected HBO has go thing of a unicorn successful the modern governmental media landscape, a spot wherever liberals and conservatives tin really person substantive conversations alternatively than simply sling mud.

A large portion of what allows for this unsocial sermon is that Maher is an unconventional Democrat. He's thing of a dinosaur, with a governmental presumption that seems stuck successful the tar pits of 1990s Bill Clintonism. He is successful immoderate ways the avatar of the Democratic Party that was.

Bill Maher connected the acceptable of his podcast, "Club Random." (Screenshot/Club Random Media)

Maher remains pro-Israel, regularly rolls his eyes astatine the excesses of wokism and the trans movement, has a affable respect for President Donald Trump, with whom helium has dined, and successful wide is simply a poster kid of "I didn’t permission the party, the enactment near me." He's adjacent friends with Kid Rock!

This has led galore conservatives to suggest that Maher is simply a amended acceptable successful the Republican Party than the Democratic Party. Jump in, the h2o is fine, they say.

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But this misses an indispensable point. Maher is not a Republican, helium is simply a Democrat. Conservatives should beryllium rooting for him to power his enactment successful affirmative ways, not to wantonness it.

Maher ever makes maine deliberation of my relative Jimmy, who has been a large instrumentality for decades. Jimmy is successful galore ways the quintessential Pennsylvania Democrat. He is successful, has a beauteous Catholic family, and similar me, grew up believing successful the Teamsters and the pope.

I asked Jimmy what helium liked truthful overmuch astir Maher and helium told me, "I similar Bill Maher a batch due to the fact that helium calls a spade a spade, based connected facts and subject and not ideological craziness. He calls retired the brainsick for what it is. I similar that helium does it careless of who he’s talking about, near oregon right."

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This is possibly a spot much of a glowing reappraisal than I would springiness to Maher, but it's not acold disconnected the mark. More importantly, based connected conversations I person with Democrats astir the country, much of them deliberation similar Maher, than deliberation similar Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez D-NY, oregon commie podcaster Hasan Piker.

Hasan Piker declared the American Empire is "fading fast" and volition "inevitably fall" erstwhile addressing Yale University’s Political Union during a arguable code connected Tuesday.  (Noushad Thekkayil/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

In this way, Maher is thing similar a absorption radical of one.

And it’s not conscionable Maher clinging to the principles of the aged Party of Jefferson and Jackson. Sen. John Fetterman D-Pa., besides insists connected being an old-school Democrat alternatively than changing sides and joining the GOP.

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But honestly, for each the attacks against Fetterman from the near of his party, determination is nary large argumentation contented that the legislator supports that was not a mainstream Democratic presumption arsenic precocious arsenic 2020.

The plain information present is that Maher, my relative Jimmy and Fetterman are ne'er going to beryllium Republicans. It's similar asking Magic Johnson to play for the Celtics. But they whitethorn beryllium the voices that bring their party, and our nation, backmost from the edge.

 Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., speaks to a newsman arsenic helium arrives successful the U.S. Capitol for a ballot connected Wednesday, December 3, 2025. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

On Saturday night, astatine the White House Correspondents' Dinner, a 3rd effort was made connected the beingness of President Trump. It astir feels mean astatine this point, but it is not normal, and portion everyone for the adjacent 12 hours volition sermon taking down the temperature, Maher truly does it.

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Because of the powerfulness of the presidency nether our Constitution, we volition ever person 2 parties, 1 that controls the White House, and different composed of everyone else. It behooves each of america for some to beryllium measured, liable and nonviolent.

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Maher does our federation inestimably much bully arsenic the reasonable, old-timey, joint-smoking Democrat than helium does arsenic a turncoat nouveau Trumper, and arsenic beacon of sanity successful a enactment flinging itself wildly to the left, helium helps everyone.

So let’s halt trying to crook Maher into a Republican. We don’t request to chant "One of us!" due to the fact that helium is not 1 of us. He is simply a Democrat, and determination is thing incorrect with that.

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Perhaps the top testament to the value of Maher is his singular staying power. In a media ecosystem successful which governmental shows and anchors emergence and autumn similar truthful galore ships successful a storm, helium has been a Rock of Gibraltar.

Just arsenic for decades "The McLaughlin Group" was the abstraction for the close and near to respectfully transverse rhetorical swords, contiguous it is "Real Time" that fills this captious role, and for amended oregon worse, it lone truly works, rather specifically, due to the fact that Bill Maher is, and ever volition be, a Democrat.

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