From The Hill: Comedian Bill Maher shook hands with Democratic National Committee (DNC) vice chair David Hogg on Friday, after the operative delivered his take on why the Democratic Party lost a chunk of young voters in the 2024 presidential election.
“What I think happened last election is younger men, they would rather vote for somebody … who they don’t completely agree with — [that] they don’t feel judged by — than somebody who they do agree with that they feel like they have to walk on eggshells around constantly because they’re going to be judged or ostracized or excommunicated,” Hogg said Friday during an appearance on HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher.”
The fiery Democrat, who has spearheaded calls for generational change within the party, argued that the two major parties have swapped in terms of tolerance, which he says has contributed to the left losing young voters.
Hogg went on to give a scathing, expletive-laden appraisal of Republicans before making questionable comments about the general life goals of young Americans.
“Republicans used to be the judgmental a–holes in many ways,” he said. “And since many Democrats, despite us, I would say, most of us coming from the right place of wanting to do the right thing — we’ve created a culture where we say, well, if you say the wrong thing, you’re excommunicated.”
“That’s just not how human beings work. Nobody’s perfect,” Hogg said. “What we have to do here is figure out how to bring people back in and work towards the bigger goal of advancing the future of this country and helping young people, especially get by so that they’re able to focus on their lives and you know, getting with a young woman or something like that instead of how are they going to pay their rent, for example, or how are they working their two jobs.”
“Young people should be able to focus on what young people should be focused on, which is how to get laid and how to go and have fun,” Hogg added, to Maher’s apparent delight.
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