HOTS ON FOR NOWHERE: Bill Maher: ‘I’ve Been Hoping for a Recession’ to Get Rid of Trump.

Shades of the “Depression Lust and Depression Porn” that Virginia Postrel spotted on the minds of numerous leftists at the dawn of the Obama era (the better to fulfill their concurrent fantasies that he was the next FDR) and the environmental doomsday nightmares that occupied the fever swamp left during the Nixon era. As Rick Moran writes about Maher, “It’s amazing what liberals daydream about. While many of us might imagine wealth, fame, or attractive women (sorry, Zsu-Zsu), Bill Maher dreams of a recession that would lead to massive job losses and foreclosed homes.”