Appearing on MSNBC’s Morning Joe on Thursday, liberal comedian Bill Maher actually hammered the Democratic Party for moving too far left and warned that 2020 candidates were jeopardizing their chances of defeating President Trump. He also declared that “America has been choking on political correctness.”

During the taped interview, host Joe Scarborough fretted: “I sat through the last debate screaming at the television set, as one Democratic candidate after another suggested that Barack Obama was too conservative on health care and immigration. How maddening is that to you, that they’re having this race to the far left?”

Maher sounded the alarm: “It’s not good. It’s kind of a cancer on progressivism.” He demanded that Democrats reject far left activists on social media: “I have been saying this for years, that, first of all, you have to stand up to Twitter. Twitter isn’t us. Twitter isn’t the rank and file Democrat. It’s not even most liberals. But they don’t do it.”

“This race is begging for someone to do a kind of a Sister Soulja moment with that far left,” Maher implored.

The HBO Real Time host ripped some of the extreme policies being pitched by 2020 contenders in the Democratic debates: “But, yes, if you run on taking away people’s health care and taxing them too much and taking away all of their guns and trans women get abortion rights, I think that came up in the first debate, I don’t think you are going to win this election.” He further fretted: “I think the only way the Democrat loses is to convince a lot of people that they are actually scarier or crazier than Trump, which is not easy to do but I think they can.”

Later in the discussion, while explaining Trump’s political success in 2016, Maher observed: “The Trump voter....If you talk to them, what they always say, what they like about him is he’s not politically correct....I think we underestimate how much America has been choking on political correctness for 25 years.”

Scarborough agreed, recalling how he has lectured officials on politically correct college campuses about the problem: “I’ve talked to presidents of universities, I’ve talked to educators, saying, ‘You do understand that you are pushing a lot of your young students toward Donald Trump?’”

Maher argued that while many voters “don’t really follow policy that closely” they do react negatively to the PC culture that dominates the left:

They just know that when they read these little stories on and on and on, it always seems to be the left that is defending some sort of – something that’s so ridiculous that they say to themselves, “I can’t let these people take over the country. Yeah, I don’t think Trump is good, but I can’t let people this weak take over, this fragile.” Fragility is not a selling point when you’re running for leader of the free world.

Near the end of the interview, Maher summed up his fears about the Democratic Party this way: “I love Elizabeth Warren, but she does scare me a little bit because, again, all we have to do to win this election is not be scarier to people than Donald Trump.”

Over the past couple days, leading up to the third Democratic primary debate Thursday night, Morning Joe has repeatedly predicted doom for the political party if it keeps moving farther left.

Just in case anyone thought Maher was becoming a conservative, Scarborough made sure to bolster his guest’s anti-Trump credentials: “You actually are not so sure you could ever see Donald Trump ever leaving the White House voluntarily. Explain.” Maher predictably ranted:

I didn’t say forever. I’m just talking about – and have been talking about – the next election, 2020. I’m not saying he’s going to stay after that. I’m saying if he loses the 2020 election, you try to get him out of there....Trump always talks about, “I have the rough people, the rough people.” In other words the police, some of the military. So it’s going to get to be one of those situations where we have to literally, physically remove him and then who does that and who takes his side? I mean, we’ve seen this happen, of course in countries we never imagined could be us, third world countries, dictatorships, where the guy just doesn’t leave and says the election – but he’s done everything else those kind of dictators do, have scary rallies, talk about locking up your political opponents, talking about the press being the enemy of the people. So don’t be so surprised if this other dictator move happens.

Here are excerpts of the lengthy conversation aired on the September 12 Morning Joe: