Bill Maher doubles down: We need a recession to get rid of Trump

MAHER: Anyone who went apeshit the last two weeks because I said going through a recession would be worth it because it would undermine Trump’s popularity has to enroll in college and take a course in perspective. A recession is a survivable event; what Trump is doing to this country is not.

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Democracy is about to go the way of the dinosaurs because we’ve been taken over by a dodo bird. So let me repeat: recessions are survivable events. We survive one everytime a Republican is in the White House, it’s true. Every Republican president since Teddy Roosevelt has presided over a recession. Four Republican presidents had two of them and Eisenhower had three.

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