Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has urged for the systemic “deprogramming” of Donald Trump's MAGA supporters as she acknowledged that Trump presumably will be the Republican party's presidential nominee in an interview with CNN's Christiane Amanpour.
“Former U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has suggested that supporters of the man who defeated her in the 2016 election, Donald Trump, need ‘formal deprogramming’ so Washington politicians can be set free from their intimidating ‘extremism’.
‘So many of those extremists – those MAGA extremists – take their marching orders from Donald Trump, who has no credibility left by any measure’, Clinton said in an interview aired by CNN on Thursday. ‘He’s only in it for himself…, and when do they break with him? At some point, you know, maybe there needs to be a formal deprogramming of the cult members, but something needs to happen’.
Clinton lamented that ‘sane’ Republicans are too intimidated by Trump’s supporters to work with Democrats on solutions to America’s problems. ‘They oftentimes say and do things which they know better than to say or do’, she said of congressional Republicans. ‘And it will require us defeating those most extreme measures and the people who promote them in order to try to get to some common ground, where people can again work together’.
Clinton added that Trump’s ‘Make America Great Again’ slogan invited nostalgic voters to ‘return to a place where people could be in charge of their lives, feel empowered, say what they want, insult whoever came in their way’. Ironically, Bill Clinton used the same slogan while campaigning for president in 1992, then criticized the phrase as racist when Trump used it in 2016.
‘It is like a cult, and somebody has to break that momentum’, she said, adding, ‘Hopefully, that will be the end, and the fever will break, and then Republicans can try to get back to fighting about issues among themselves and electing people who are at least responsible and accountable’”. -RT
With both major political parties in a current state of disarray on the national level, like a shark sensing blood in the water, Hillary Clinton has resurfaced only to recite the same tired claims that have been repeated ever since her defeat in 2016 of Donald Trump fomenting hate and operating as a threat to bring down American democracy.
However, while it’d be safe to assume that whatever deprogramming or reeducation she has in mind will continue to pin the blame on Trump voters, the Kremlin, and Wikileaks for her political demise, it would be complicated for her to convince anyone that the Democratic-lead U.S. Justice Department was more vindictive to her than it’s been towards Julian Assange and Donald Trump.