The far left of the Democrats don't want to recognize that Biden's win was a win for centrist policies. Trumps biggest successes in the last few months have been associating Democrats (Biden) as socialist/communist, anti-law enforcement, and anti oil/industry. Just like rioters and trouble makers disrupted and destroyed the base message of the whole BLM protests, the expansion of that to the "cancel" culture makes a lot of center-right people vote Republican. I think Maher was spot on.

If the Democrats position themselves as the solid centrist party then they'll actually be able to get things done, both parties going to the extreme is what has led the government system swinging like a pendulum.

It's the same with what happens after Trump is out of office. I'm all for the GAO, DOJ and FBI investigating him for things he may have done, especially in the realm of emoluments and Hatch Act violations not to mention the potential political things. The danger of sitting politicians calling for the jailing of the predecessors becoming normal is something that must be tread carefully. Trump should be called to account but it needs to look legitimate and not like a hit job otherwise this will be the norm when Republicans take back the presidency and house as will happen again someday.

All this makes me really wish we had Ranked Choice voting at all levels of Government. That would allow people to vote for their extreme ideals without having to throw their votes away while at the same time not making it necessary for the two parties to be such "Big Tent" parties that have such strong internal debates about what makes a true R or D.