Bill Maher warns Democratic Party against democratic socialism on Real Time

HBO host Invoice Maher criticized democratic socialism on Friday and warned of its potential unfavorable influence on the Democratic Get together, urging each voters and occasion leaders to shun the ideology.

The “Actual Time” host particularly focused two distinguished democratic socialists throughout his “New Rule” phase, newly elected New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt.

“Democrats want to acknowledge that Zohran Mamdani is the way forward for the occasion. Sadly, it is the Republican Get together. Get it?” Maher joked. “And when you missed his victory speech in final week’s New York mayoral election, don’t be concerned. You will see it in each assault advert for the subsequent two years.”

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Whereas Maher admitted that Mamdani “looks like a pleasant man,” he warned of the Democratic Get together’s growing curiosity in democratic socialist candidates. Maher urged earlier than “your complete left aspect of the nation catches socialist fever,” he ought to search recommendation from one other “large winner” of final week’s particular election.

“…Abigail Spanberger, the brand new governor of Virginia, mentioned earlier than the ’24 election issues like, ‘If the occasion does not shift to the middle, we shall be torn aside.’ And, “We must not ever use the phrase socialist or socialism once more,” Maher recalled. “Properly, she was proper, however they did not hear. Typical, am I proper, girls?’

Because the Democratic Get together seems to be divided between its reasonable and progressive wings, Maher questioned, “How will we decide who is correct?”

“It seems we do not actually should flip a coin. We now have the proof. In 2024, 13 Democrats received within the districts that Trump additionally received, all moderates. This is not rocket science. All of the left-wing assume tanks have carried out autopsies on 2024 they usually all got here up with the identical message. Go downtown,” he claimed.

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Maher pointed to Vermont’s “collapsed” single-payer well being care system as additional proof in opposition to the effectiveness of democratic socialism.

“Democratic socialism is sort of a relationship profile. Issues look nice till you meet in the true world. Bernie Sanders, for instance. His large factor was at all times bringing single-payer well being care to our nation of 340 million. However when liberal, tie-dye Vermont tried to do it for a inhabitants of 626,000, it collapsed,” he railed.

Senator Bernie Sanders throughout a press convention on the US Capitol in Washington, DC, USA, on Wednesday, November 5, 2025. (Daniel Heuer/Bloomberg by way of Getty Pictures)

“Bernie, AOC and Mamdani aren’t Democrats. They would be the first to inform you they’re democratic socialists,” Maher continued. “And that is one thing utterly completely different. And I do not assume folks know that but.”

The “Actual Time” host acknowledged that packages like Social Safety, Medicare, Medicaid and meals stamps are all technically socialist packages, however argued that members of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) – like Mamdani – are way more radical.

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“That is all socialism. A lot of it’s designed to melt the sides of capitalism. However the DSA is radical on this idea. And radical financial insurance policies are at all times inevitably accompanied by radical social insurance policies,” Maher warned.

Though Maher was important of the progressive wing of the Democratic Get together, he didn’t spare the Republicans both. He famous that Individuals are “begging either side” to “act usually” and agree on rational insurance policies.

“It is both defund the police or the army on the streets. Both MAGA’s crypto-crony capitalism or the city-run supermarkets,” he opined. “No, I do not need that. I desire a Democrat who will reassure me: when you like Entire Meals, you’ll be able to hold your Entire Meals.”

The Democratic Socialists of America, Los Angeles chapter, sing “Solidarity Ceaselessly” through the Could Day rally. (Josh Steichmann/Getty)

Maher went after either side of the aisle once more quickly after, criticizing President Donald Trump’s “macho bulls” whereas mocking the left’s “p–y politics.”

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“You already know, at this 12 months’s DSA conference, or because it’s generally identified, ‘Commie-Con,’ that is what you get. You needed to submit a photograph of a unfavorable COVID check to get in – in 2025. Yeah, nobody needs to do this once more,” he claimed. “We have had sufficient of Trump’s macho bulls, and we have had sufficient of p-politics.”

The places of work of Sanders and Mamdani didn’t instantly reply to Fox Information Digital’s request for remark. Fox Information Digital has additionally reached out to Democratic Socialists of America for remark.