WHEN MILO YIANNOPOULOS, the far right troll from Breitbart, was announced as a guest on Real Time With Bill Maher, few heads turned with dramatic surprise. Milo’s “Dangerous Faggot Tour” has been shuddering with controversy since it began, with protests at almost every date and many decrying his brand of diet Alt Right. When his February 2nd date at the University of California at Berkeley came, the counter-organizing had swelled so large that they overwhelmed the venue. Over $100,000 in damage took place as a Black Bloc broke windows, watched as a generator sparked into flames, and forced the University to cancel the event. Milo then went on a public tirade demanding retribution against the college, screaming that the left had violated his free speech.

In the search for allies in this struggle, he looked across the aisle to Maher. Last year, Maher had been approached to deliver the…