Maher Mocks Schultz For Claiming Both Sides to Blame for Status Quo: 'Just Admit You Haven't Really Followed Politics for the Last Twenty Years'

During Friday's edition of Real Time With Bill Maher, the eponymous host concluded his satirical segment "new rules" with a lecture to potential independent 2020 candidate Howard Schultz, which basically ended up as a five-minute monologue trashing the Republican Party. Talking to Schultz, Maher said, "new rule: instead of saying both parties are equally to blame for the mess we're in, just admit you haven't really followed politics for the last twenty years." Maher went after Schultz's premise that both sides have become too extreme, citing an article from "highly respected scholars" named Norm Orstein and Thomas Mann describing the Republican Party as "ideologically extreme; scornful of compromise; unmoved by conventional understanding of facts, evidence, and science."  Maher agreed with their analysis, concluding that "Congress is not broken. The Republican Party is broken," as the crowd erupted into thunderous applause.