Comedian Bill Maher defended the West during an episode of his show, “Real Time.”
“Another thing JD Vance said is, ‘We will stand with you for Western civilization,’” Maher stated, discussing comments made in support of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. He added, “I think you and I both believe there is such a thing as Western civilization.”
“Remember after 9/11, if you said ‘clash of civilizations,’ it was the beginning of that wokeness where… ‘Oh, don’t say that, that’s Islamophobia,’” Maher said. “No, it was a clash of civilizations — the civilizations are very different, and ours is better.”
He noted that for those “not clapping, spend a week in a Muslim capital, you wouldn’t last — especially as a woman.”
Vice President JD Vance told Hungarians last week that “what the United States and Hungary together represent under Viktor’s leadership and under President Trump’s is the defense of Western civilization.”
“The defense of the idea that children should be able to go to school and get educated and not indoctrinated,” he said, as per CBS News. “The defense of the idea that European and American families should be able to transport themselves and be able to afford to heat and cool their homes. The defense of the idea that we are founded on a certain Christian civilization and Christian values that animate everything from freedom of speech to rule of law to respect for minority rights and protection of the vulnerable.”
“Will you stand for sovereignty and democracy? Will you stand for Western civilization? Will you stand for freedom, for truth and for the God of our fathers?” Vance asked. “Then my friends, go to the polls in the weekend, stand with Viktor Orbán because he stands for you and he stands for all these things.”
Orbán did not win re-election.
