This article comes from “naturalnews.com”
Former First Lady and twice-failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has said there needs to be a “formal deprogramming” of Trump supporters.
Clinton went on to tell CNN in a Thursday interview that Trump supporters are “cult members” and “something needs to happen” to deal with the “MAGA extremists.”
“We’ve had very strong partisans in both parties in the past and we had very bitter battles over all kinds of things, gun control and climate change and the economy and taxes,” said Clinton to CNN’s Christiane Amanpour. “But there wasn’t this little tail of extremism wagging the dog of the Republican party as it is today. Sadly, so many of those extremists, those MAGA extremists take their marching orders from Donald Trump, who has no credibility left by any measure.”
“He’s only in it for himself. He’s now defending himself in civil actions, and criminal actions. And when do they break with him? Because at some point, maybe there needs to be a formal deprogramming of the cult members, but something needs to happen.”
Clinton also stressed the importance of her words because Donald J. Trump will likely be the Republican party’s presidential nominee in 2024.
“At this point, I think, sadly, he will still be the nominee and we have to defeat him and we have to defeat those who are the election deniers, as we did in 2020 and 2022,” said Clinton. “And we have to just be smarter about how we are trying to empower the right people inside the Republican party.”
“It’s a classic tale of an authoritarian, populist who really has a grip on the emotional psychological needs and desires of a portion of the population,” Clinton added. “And the base of the Republican party, for whatever combination of reasons — and it is emotional and psychological — sees in him someone who speaks for them. And they are determined that they will continue to vote for him, attend his rallies, wear his merchandise, because for whatever reason, he and his very negative, nasty form of politics resonates with them.”
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