It’s November 3, 2026.

Californians are rushing to the polls, preparing to elect their next governor, Gavin Newsom, to succeed an elaborate and slow-moving disaster. The choice is between Kamala Harris, the brash, incompetent and failed presidential candidate, or Bill Maher, running as an independent. A common-sense comedian and one of the few tolerant liberals left in America who is willing to criticize his own party’s excesses.

Can you do it? Should Maher throw his hat into the ring in 2026?

Mr. Maher is a left-wing quasi-socialist. approved Bernie Sanders in 2016. He suffers from severe Trump Derangement Syndrome. He never intended to abandon the Democratic Party or vote Republican for that matter.

But he has one characteristic that unites all Americans, left and right. It’s hatred for stupid people doing stupid things, and California’s state and local governments are filled with that sentiment. He also despises the woke left, and if there is a lesson from the wildfires, it is that when government officials fail to perform their most basic duties: preparing for and mitigating natural disasters, professional society The problem is that it doesn’t matter at all. (Related: California Screamin’: The dark and heartbreaking American tragedy at the heart of LA’s apocalyptic collapse)

On his show “Real Time with Bill Maher” on Friday, the comedian took aim at incompetent California Democrats who mismanaged the devastating wildfires that caused damage. Thousands of homes and businesses were destroyed and nearly 40,000 acres burned..

“When you ask why there are so many fire hydrants, [Pacific] There is no water in the fence; [Democratic] governor [Gavin] “Local people are trying to figure it out,” Newsom said. Yes, you have to do it before a fire breaks out,” Maher said.

He went on to tear into Democratic Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, whom he aptly described as “Nero of American politics.”

“Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, the nero of American politics, toyed with Ghana while the city was in the throes of a fire, but later took responsibility for it by saying, “We can ignore eight months that have not been seen in Los Angeles in at least 14 years. It was blamed on “some rain and wind”. Yes, it’s not that long. Perhaps look into the history books and see how our ancestors fared in 2011. ” Maher said.

That’s the kind of message that could appeal to Republicans, disillusioned Democrats and even the most liberal and well-funded people running Hollywood. Mr. Maher will have the support of his peers in the entertainment industry, he will appeal to pragmatic tech workers who are tired of government waste, and he will attract the support of unpopular and elitist voters like Kamala Harris. If we were to confront them, we would be able to win against ordinary working people. Although he himself is some kind of elitist – class voter.

If I still lived in California, I would vote for him in a heartbeat. Frankly, I’d take him over someone like Larry Elder, who previously ran for governor. For the time being, California is too blue to sway true conservatives. Someone with a modicum of common sense and not beholden to the woke elements of the Democratic Party could at least put the brakes on the fiscal madness that is crushing the nation.

Maher 2026?