Already, progressives are branding the GOP’s next generation as “a threat to democracy”—sound familiar?
Several days before the 2016 presidential election, the comedian-cum political commentator Bill Maher made an extraordinary admission to his audience. In the past, he said, he’d heaped derision on Republican candidates and officeholders like George W. Bush, John McCain, and Mitt Romney, portraying them as extremists. “We attacked your boy Bush as if he was the end of the world,” he told former presidential speechwriter David Frum, “and he wasn’t.” Maher spoke of giving President Obama $1 million to defeat Romney because he feared him so much. But “Mitt Romney wouldn’t have changed my life that much,” he admitted in 2016. For years, Maher said, liberals like himself had been “crying wolf” about Republicans, including “honorable men” like Bush and McCain. But the 2016 election, and Donald Trump, were different. “Once fascists get power, they don’t give it up,” Maher said, as he pleaded for votes against Trump.
For years Sam Harris carved out an image of himself as a godless warrior for reason. He’s one of the West’s best-known atheists. He rarely misses an opportunity to diss religion and to insist that cool, rational, ideally scientific inquiry is alway preferable to dogmatic belief. Now he seems to have changed his mind. No, he hasn’t been baptised into the Christian faith or sworn allegiance to the Prophet Muhammad. But he has come out as a member of a modern-day cult that is every bit as cranky as any religious sect. Meet the new Sam Harris, devotee of the fundamentalist doctrine of all-out 
Former President Trump continued his troll game on Thursday when he sarcastically endorsed socialist
