Kamala Harris may be one of the worst candidates the Democrats have ever put up. Even fellow liberals know it.
And now Bill Maher eviscerated Kamala Harris in a betrayal like no other.
Comedian Bill Maher didn’t hold back Thursday when he took aim at Vice President Kamala Harris, saying she needs to shake the perception that she’s part of a “stealth version” of the far-left.
“Kamala’s big, I think, challenge here to win over the undecided voters is to convince them that she’s not part of what they suspect she might be, sort of a stealth version of the worst excesses of the left,” Maher said.
He added, “There’s a coalition of Trump voters, people who really like him. And then there’s people that don’t necessarily like him that much, but they still think he’s less crazy than stuff that strikes them as aggressively anti-common sense.”
Maher, never shy to criticize both sides of the aisle, joined MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough after the MSNBC host appeared on Maher’s “Real Time” program.
The conversation soon turned to the topic of “wokeism,” with Maher pointing out how the term has strayed far from its original meaning of “being alert to injustice.”
“Words change, and they migrate,” Maher explained.
“‘Woke’ now has to answer for, or people have just used the word to describe a number of extreme things on the left.”
And Harris is no stranger to far-left policy pushes.
Back during her ill-fated 2019 presidential bid, she campaigned on extreme measures like banning fracking, instituting a mandatory buyback program for semiautomatic rifles, and eliminating the filibuster to push through the Green New Deal.
Harris even flirted with eliminating private insurance, backing a single-payer health care system before infamously backtracking the morning after a debate hosted by NBC News.
The flip-flop cost her support with some progressives, and her credibility has suffered ever since.
Harris’ track record of backpedaling didn’t stop there. She’s since pulled back on several radical positions, particularly fracking.
In a 2020 reversal, Harris’ campaign clarified that she “does not support a total ban on fracking,” though her previous stance suggested otherwise.
But despite the flip-flops, Harris maintains that her core “values have not changed.”
“The most important and most significant aspect of my policy perspective and decisions is my values have not changed,” Harris said in a CNN interview, referencing the Green New Deal.
She added, “I have always believed, and I have worked on it, that the climate crisis is real… We did that with the Inflation Reduction Act.”
It seems Harris is trying to walk a tightrope, hoping voters will overlook her past radical stances while she insists she hasn’t wavered on her “values.”
Maher’s critique highlights the growing perception that Harris may be trying to disguise her true political leanings to win over voters, but for many, her past positions are hard to forget.
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