Bill Maher has committed the left’s unpardonable sin. Not only did he actually agree to meet with the focus of evil in the modern world, Donald Trump himself, but he came out of the meeting saying that Trump really wasn’t that bad a guy. Leftists all over the country were enraged, and Larry David, anxious to keep his old pal Bill on the reservation, fired off an acid op-ed in (where else?) the New York Times, taking the daring and courageous step of becoming the ten millionth leftist to compare Trump to Hitler.
But David was really attacking Maher, not Trump. His Trump-is-Hitler shtick was just background to his central point, which was that Maher was wrong, wrong, wrong to accord Trump the honor of his presence, and even more wrong to have characterized Trump as actually a reasonable human being. And now Maher, who in this case is occupying the high ground of decency and sanity, has responded to Larry David, and brought some clarity back to this insane discussion.
Fox News reported Thursday that Maher had this to say about David’s vicious hit piece: "I mean, this wasn't, you know, my favorite moment of our friendship. But I think the minute you play the Hitler card, you've lost the argument. And also, I must say, you know, come on, man. Hitler? Nazis? Nobody has been harder about and on and more prescient, I must say, about Donald Trump than me. I don't need to be lectured on who Donald Trump is. Just the fact that I met him in person didn't change that, and the fact that I reported honestly is not a sin either."
After thus reaffirming his leftist bona fides, Maher zeroed in on the howling absurdity of the left’s repeated likening of Trump to Hitler: "But, you know, to use the Hitler thing, first of all, I just think it's kind of insulting to 6 million dead Jews, you know. Like, that should kind of be in its own place in history. And, you know, I know people can say, 'Well, we're just comparing it in this way.' Well, it's an argument you kind of lost just to start it. Hitler has really kind of got to stay in his own place. He is the GOAT of evil, and we're just going to have to, I think, leave it like that."
It shouldn’t even need to be said, but yeah. To liken Trump to Hitler is to prove that you know or care little to nothing about the facts regarding both. Leftist hysterics such as Larry David are trying to convince us that deporting criminal illegal migrants is akin to forcing Jews into cattle cars and shipping them off to death camps. Larry David and his comrades would have us believe that Trump deporting people who violated the rules of the green card by openly supporting terrorist groups is equivalent to Hitler’s banning of all opposition parties and establishment of a one-party totalitarian dictatorship.
David’s New York Times op-ed even unintentionally pointed up the absurdity of the comparison. Wrote David, "No one I knew encouraged me to go. ‘He’s Hitler. He’s a monster.’ But eventually I concluded that hate gets us nowhere. I knew I couldn’t change his views, but we need to talk to the other side — even if it has invaded and annexed other countries and committed unspeakable crimes against humanity." What countries has he invaded and annexed? What “unspeakable crimes against humanity” has Trump committed?
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The digs against Maher were unmistakable. Maher had said that “Trump was gracious and measured” in a way that seemed different to Maher from the president’s public persona: “And why isn't that in other settings — I don't know, and I can't answer, and it's not my place to answer. I'm just telling you what I saw, and I wasn't high." Clearly with that in mind, David wrote, "Suddenly he seemed so human […] Here I was, prepared to meet Hitler, the one I’d seen and heard — the public Hitler. But this private Hitler was a completely different animal. And oddly enough, this one seemed more authentic, like this was the real Hitler. The whole thing had my head spinning." Maher had said his “mind is blown.”
Maher maintained, "I can take a shot, and I also can absolutely take it when people disagree with me.” He even expressed willingness to hash all this out with David face to face: “You know, that's not exactly the way I would have done it… if I could talk to Trump, I could talk to Larry David, too. You know, I could talk to anybody."
But that’s not how the left operates. As far as the rigid and doctrinaire Larry David is concerned, if Maher won’t shun and denounce Trump, he must shun and denounce Maher. That’s what the left does to wrongthinkers.
