Another Shapeshifting Member of "NuHollywood" Changing Form to Save Flagging Career
Here's the thing about Old Hollywood. No matter how much you disagreed about the politics of movie stars, they were 100% consistent. Jane Fonda, Jimmy Stewart, Vanessa Redgrave, Clint Eastwood, John Wayne and Charlton Heston remained diehard lefties and righties throughout their entire careers. You'll never, ever hear Jane Fonda suddenly sounding like an Alt Righter, or someone like Clint Eastwood supporting BLM.
NuHollywood is different. It's filled with shape-shifting opportunists who suddenly switch sides as soon as it helps their career. What makes it worse is HOW they do it. Shape-shifters like Dennis Miller, Bill Maher, Jon Voight, George Carlin and so many others predictably turn on "liberal Hollywood" as soon as their careers start bombing and play martyr to leftwing politics...when ironically, 99.9% of their success is owed to passing themselves off as members of that liberal elite--not just for years, but for DECADES, even, building a solid progressive following.
Seeing where Maher is going now, I'm going to call it now: he's going to start sounding more and more like Tucker Carlson and Geraldo Rivera at some point. Hell, he might even start slobbering over Putin's knob. Just wait and see. Anything to remain relevant.