Here’s the latest comedy/news bit from Bill Maher’s “Real Time” show on Friday. This one is called “New Rule: Ghost Brands,” and is about commercial brand names that still exist but have been forgotten, like General Electric, Kodak, and RCA. Maher’s fear is that the Democratic Party, which is at its lowest rating in 35 years, is also becoming a ghost brand. And if the Democratic Party becomes a ghost brand, it will be for the same reason, says Maher, that companies become ghost brands: they deviated from a successful formula. In the case of Playboy, he argues, the magazine eventually put gay and trans-identified men on the cover. In the case of Democrats, says Maher, “they want to be that upscale store that impresses celebrities.”
The implicit message, conveyed by the final note that “Democrats need to get their shit together,” is that the Dems have gone off-brand by being woke. This is nothing new for Maher (or this website), and maybe Maher’s listeners are indeed upscale, woke Democrats, too. But if people don’t absorb the lesson, in a few years we’ll be faced with President Vance.
The other guests were Marjorie Taylor Greene, Dan Farah and Michael Moynihan.