CNN's Fareed Zakaria: Whatever happens with this election, the big question I think we all are still trying to puzzle is how Trump, why Trump? What is your explanation as to why Donald Trump erupted onto the political scene the way he did?

BILL MAHER: Well, you have to look at the people who voted for him. I mean, it's depressing to think that you share the country with so many people who you share nothing with. You know, Donald Trump is a reflection. And what we learned is that there is a lot of vulgar, tacky, racist people in this country, more than I thought. I knew there were some. But it's the proverbial lifting up of a rock and what we found when we lifted it up was the basket of deplorables, and I know that they hate that term, but if the basket fits, and it does.

ZAKARIA: There are a lot of people that talk about economic anxiety, the dislocation, and the pain. In your last monologue, you don't buy that.

MAHER: Well, I mean, we found out it was a myth. I mean, the typical Trump voter in the primaries made, I think, $72,000. They're not hurting economically like they say they are. No more likely to be hurt by trade or immigration, no more likely to be out of work. You know, the base problem is that they live in this fact free bubble. If you've ever seen one of his rallies it's a completely fact-free assessment of this country, the problems facing it and his always Constitutionally impossible solutions. It's funny, the Internet was supposed to make us smarter but it just served as a seal for knowledge to get in.

So we live in this element where it's not even a race between ideologies anymore. It's not Republican and Democrat or conservative and liberal. It's reality versus alternative reality. This reality of their their own choosing. And to make it even worse, they don't care about lying. Lying, bold-faced, caught on tape lying is no longer a deal breaker at all. They don't care. They know, they don't know, it doesn't matter to them. He's their guy.
 

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