Hillary Clinton, the former Secretary of State and failed presidential candidate of “basket of deplorables” infamy, is back to insulting supporters of former President Donald Trump, this time by calling for the “formal deprogramming” of those who support former President Donald Trump and his MAGA political ideology.
She did so during an interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour, during which the two women discussed the current state of the GOP, former President Donald Trump, and Hillary’s views of those who remain steadfast alongside the former president and his political movement.
During the interview, Hillary insulted the motives, intelligence, and political views of Trump’s base of support, telling Amanpour, “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.”
Continuing, Hillary said, in her characteristically condescending tone, that she thinks there might need to be “formal deprogramming” of the former President’s base, saying, “You know, because at some point, maybe there needs to be a formal deprogramming of the cult members, but something needs to happen.”
Predictably, the clip quickly led to much criticism of Clinton and her worldview, characterized by many on the right as not just leftist in outlook, but also elitist and wholly ignorant of the experiences and outlook on life of the average American.
For example, Fox Business host Charles Payne said, “This is beyond arrogance it scary. You know conversations and planning are happening among the ‘elite.’ This goes against the ethos of America. The Establishment is losing in the arena of ideas despite control all levers of influence. Are re-education camps next? This could end in bloodshed.”
Similarly, Professor Wilfred O’Reilly, a professor and Twitter personality, said, “The idea that the people who believe that there are multiple human sexes, COVID lock-downs were a necessary good, and 10,000 unarmed Black men are killed by cops every year need to deprogram US really is ‘resist at all costs’ insane.”
Joining them was Blaze editor-in-chief Matthew Peterson, who said, “This is not America. This is Un-American. This is an utter rejection of what millions of American citizens hold dear. This is not what we believe in. These people are sick. But they are coordinating and acting in unprecedented ways every day now.”
For many on the right, Hillary’s latest comment called to mind when she said that many of Trump’s supporters were an “irredeemable” backed of deplorables, saying, “We are living in a volatile political environment. You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right? The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic — you name it. And unfortunately there are people like that. And he has lifted them up. He has given voice to their websites that used to only have 11,000 people — now how 11 million. He tweets and retweets their offensive hateful mean-spirited rhetoric. Now, some of those folks — they are irredeemable, but thankfully they are not America.”
Watch her here:
WATCH: Hillary’s new deplorable moment saying Trump supporters must be formally deprogrammed ⬇️
pic.twitter.com/7HKXyleQZX— Kayleigh McEnany (@kayleighmcenany) October 6, 2023
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