I think the points Maher has been making about so-called "wokeness" are being trivialized and/or mischaracterized here. In the real world, you aren't either someone who agrees with every idea of CRT or every slogan of activists, or else you're a racist.
Maher has some valid points about the damage that certain ideas on the far left are doing to the democrats politically. He sees the creeping facsim on the right, and he wants the left to improve its messaging. For example, the use of the phrase "white privilege." In the old days, when we discussed racism, it was to point out the black people were disadvantaged. Now it's to say that white people are privileged. It's two different ways of looking at the same thing. But one way focuses attention on the victim to garner sympathy, while the other just pisses off poor and working class white people who don't feel in the least bit "privileged." It's bad politics.
My main issue with Maher was the anti-vax crap. I have no idea why he took that turn.