Bill Maher warns Democrats not to ‘go back to bad ideas’ after sweeping midterm victories

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“”Now that Democrats won the election, let’s not get high on our own supply,” Maher said.

Comedian Bill Maher issued a preemptive warning to Democrats after their sweeping midterm election wins, urging the party not to mistake its victories for a mandate to revive “bad ideas” that could drive voters back to the GOP.

“Now that Democrats won the election, let’s not get high on our own supply like the last crowd did and interpret the W as a sign to go back to bad ideas,” he said during Friday’s episode of “Real Time.”

The liberal comedian pointed to “defund the police” and a refusal to enforce shoplifting laws, arguing that such approaches hurt the people progressives claim to help.

Maher also mocked progressives he described as the “lawn sign people,” accusing them of using yard signs touting equality, science and kindness to advertise their moral superiority.

“It’s all well and good to declare yourself the morally enlightened ones, but when your policy ideas are based on how good they make you feel and not on how much good they actually do, that’s when people lurch to the other even worse extreme,” he said.

Criticizing policies in Democratic-led cities, Maher asked, “Who benefited when you didn’t enforce the laws against shoplifting? Who benefits when you give a homeless schizophrenic clean needles instead of forcing him into treatment?”

Maher also criticized what he characterized as white liberals’ approach to racial issues, joking, “I talked to every black person in America, and it turns out they kind of don’t give a s—. Yeah. Turns out they’re not waking up every day saying, ‘What can I do today to make sure white people feel better about themselves?’”

Tim Graham, the executive editor of the Media Research Center’s NewsBusters blog, told Fox News Digital, “None of the elitist media are anywhere near the kind of tough-love advice counselor for Democrats, and especially not in public. If they wanted to tell Democrats that their gooey intentions aren’t equivalent to outcomes, they’d do it off the record.”

Christian Toto, the editor of Hollywood in Toto, told Fox…

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