Bill Maher: If the Democratic Party Doesn’t Adapt, They Could Become Politically Extinct Like the Whigs

Increasing rights for people who have been marginalized, I’m all for that. But they don’t know when to stop. You know, and that’s what the message of the electorate was, you know, that the Democrats are all for the oppressed, and what the electorate was saying was, ‘You know what’s oppressing me? The price of eggs. Okay? That’s what’s oppressing me.’ Are there still racists in this country? Of course. Is that still an issue? Yes, it is. But the Democrats have to come to Jesus on that that issue and a number of issues where — obviously, the fact that Donald Trump won more minority votes than I think any Republican since Nixon or before, that should tell you a lot. It’s more about class now. And when they get on that page, when they have someone who comes up to say, ‘Let’s live in the year we’re living in,’ I think that party will do better. As of now, I don’t see it in the Democratic Party. I see them still digging the hole deeper. But we’ll see. I think parties basically want to survive, as all organisms do, but the Democrats could go the way of the Whigs. You know, parties do die off when they don’t adapt. I don’t think that’s gonna happen because I think, again, they do want to live. As they say in Jurassic Park, life finds a way. But we’ll see. It’s up to them.”