Even moderate conservatives were still telling their followers to give Obama a chance. I knew Obama, and I knew he didn’t deserve a chance to turn America into a Frankfurt School dystopia. He was a Frankfurt School scholar, a Marxist gradualist in moderate’s clothing, a community organizer in the Alinsky mold. But I wasn’t sure that I wanted to stake out that position with Bill Maher. Perhaps they even invited me on because I had complied with the rules of the game back in 2005.

