Maher: Dems Keep Picking Communists, Other Crazies, I’d Vote for Palin over DSA

August 1, 2026
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Bill Maher’s blunt dismissal of the Democratic Party’s latest crop of self-described socialists and outright communists isn’t just late-night snark—it’s a flashing warning light for anyone who still believes the Second Amendment can survive a party that treats private gun ownership as a moral defect. When the loudest voices on the left are openly calling for the abolition of the police, the confiscation of “assault weapons,” and the nationalization of entire industries, the old “common-sense” fig leaf is gone; the agenda is now nakedly anti-constitutional. Maher’s willingness to say he’d rather pull the lever for Sarah Palin than for a DSA-endorsed candidate underscores how far the Overton window has shifted: even a Hollywood liberal can see that the new Democratic vanguard is more interested in dismantling the Bill of Rights than in reforming it. For the 2A community, the takeaway is simple—elections are no longer about tweaking background checks or magazine limits; they’re about whether the right to keep and bear arms will be treated as a fundamental liberty or as a loophole to be closed. Every time a candidate boasts about Australia-style buybacks or “common-sense” red-flag laws that bypass due process, they’re telegraphing the next step: registration, then confiscation. Gun owners who still imagine they can vote for the “moderate” Democrat down the ticket are ignoring the party’s own primary electorate, which is increasingly nominating activists whose endgame is a disarmed populace under permanent progressive governance. The silver lining is that Maher’s candor may finally wake up the mushy middle—the suburbanites and former Obama voters who told pollsters they support “assault-weapon bans” without realizing those bans are the gateway drug to repealing the Second Amendment itself. If cultural liberals are publicly admitting the Democratic bench is lousy with extremists, the gun-rights coalition has a fresh opening to peel away voters who value individual liberty more than ideological purity tests. The 2024 map will be drawn by whichever side understands that the real fight isn’t over bump stocks or suppressors; it’s over whether the Constitution remains a limit on government or becomes a menu of suggestions the left can ignore whenever the mood strikes.

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For the 2A community, the takeaway is simple—elections are no longer about tweaking background checks or magazine limits; they’re about whether the right to keep and bear arms will be treated as a fundamental liberty or as a loophole to be closed. Every time a candidate boasts about Australia-style buybacks or “common-sense” red-flag laws that bypass due process, they’re telegraphing the next step: registration, then confiscation. Gun owners who still imagine they can vote for the “moderate” Democrat down the ticket are ignoring the party’s own primary electorate, which is increasingly nominating activists whose endgame is a disarmed populace under permanent progressive governance.

The silver lining is that Maher’s candor may finally wake up the mushy middle—the suburbanites and former Obama voters who told pollsters they support “assault-weapon bans” without realizing those bans are the gateway drug to repealing the Second Amendment itself. If cultural liberals are publicly admitting the Democratic bench is lousy with extremists, the gun-rights coalition has a fresh opening to peel away voters who value individual liberty more than ideological purity tests. The 2024 map will be drawn by whichever side understands that the real fight isn’t over bump stocks or suppressors; it’s over whether the Constitution remains a limit on government or becomes a menu of suggestions the left can ignore whenever the mood strikes.

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