HBO’s Bill Maher doubled down on Friday’s episode of Real Time on his fallacious appeal to the center argument that President Donald Trump “has gone way too far” in issuing an executive order that says there are only two sexes.
Lamenting to his panel of former Democratic Rep. Tim Ryan and New York Times columnist Pamela Paul, Maher wondered, “Trump has gone way too far on this. He’s at that place—this is what I say, nobody can ever be in the middle; it has to go from one pendulum swing all the way to the other, so now we are back at there’s only two sexes, which is ridiculous, although I’m glad I’m in one of the ones we’re keeping. Is that a hill worth dying on?”
Like his earlier protests against the order, Maher never cared to explain why he thinks it is “ridiculous,” most likely because it isn’t. Still, Ryan gave a…
