During his closing monologue on Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher said that “Every election year, Democrats seem to remember patriotism for about an hour at their convention when they’re trying to win back swing voters.” But “treat patriotism as something vaguely embarrassing” the rest of the time.
Maher began by saying, “Everybody has to start getting a little more excited for America’s birthday. … I’m not down with this attitude of, well, we’re having a party, but if Trump’s going, I’m not. That’s so high school it should be in the Epstein files. … I’m not saying Trump doesn’t want to muddy the distinction between himself and the country. He sure as shit does. That’s what wannabe authoritarians do. They try to blur that line. Don’t be an accomplice. Especially since, for all of Trump’s nonsense, America is still here, still incredibly prosperous by world standards, still the place people want to get to, still free enough to let me put the word nonsense next to the president’s name [Maher then crossed his fingers]. You do know it’s not that way everywhere? Now am I worried about creeping authoritarianism and attacks on free speech and politicizing the Justice Department and enemies lists? Yes, as I have been since 2016, when I first used the term slow-moving coup. But we’re ten years on now, and while Trump wanting to act like a king in many ways is still a story, so is the fact that he’s also been checked.”
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