Hillary Clinton Shreds Trump's MAGA 'Cult' With 'Formal Deprogramming' Call | HuffPost Latest News
S E E D E D C O N T E N T
Hillary Clinton on Thursday ripped Donald Trump and said of his supporters that "maybe there needs to be a formal deprogramming of the cult members."
The former secretary of state and 2016 Democratic nominee told CNN's Christiane Amanpour that "clearly" there were some Republicans with common sense, evident by those who voted with Democrats to keep the government open.
"But I think they are intimidated" and "oftentimes … say and do things which they know better than to say or do, 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," said Clinton.
Clinton recalled "very strong partisans in both parties in the past" but said, "There wasn't this little tail of extremism wagging the dog of the Republican Party as it is today."
She added, "And sadly, so many of those extremists, those MAGA extremists, take their marching orders from Donald Trump, who has no credibility left by any measure."
Watch the interview here:
Amanpour asked how the cult could be broken.
Clinton acknowledged that Trump would "likely" be the Republican 2024 nominee. "We have to defeat him and we have to defeat those who are the election deniers, as we did in 2020 and 2022, and we have to just be smarter about how we are trying to empower the right people inside the Republican Party," she said.
Trump is the "classic tale of an authoritarian, populist who really has a grip on the emotional and psychological needs" of his base and the "Make America Great Again" slogan was "a bid for nostalgia, to return to a place where people could be in charge of their lives."
"It is like a cult and somebody has to break that momentum," Clinton added, predicting a Biden victory in a possible 2020 replay, when "the fever will break" and the GOP can return to fighting on actual issues.
Lee Moran
Reporter, HuffPost
Tags
Who is online
126 visitors
Democrats floating the idea of re-education camps. Who didn't see this coming?
Hillary doing her best to try and remain relevant in the Democratic Party. It's not working.
These are the people who spent a year rioting and destroying cities because they were bamboozled into believing cops kill thousands of unarmed blacks people each year. Heal thyself.
We here many here screaming about “Insurrection” endlessly for almost 3 years now, but the definition of insurrection was met completely In Seattle and other cities and yet the hypocrites don’t seem to care about that.
Yea, the FEMA camps are coming, this is great news.
I get the top bunk!
I’m sure you will pass Clintons purity test for ideology.
Another ignorant comment, Hillary wants people deprogrammed, re-educated. Nobody said anything about FEMA camps. If you continue to troll you comments will be deleted.
[You have responded, George. The topic is open for discussion, and further comments in this line will stand as long as they do not violate CoC.]
The prefect spot for de programming and re education...
BTW that is not trolling simply adding to the article.
Cheers.
Adding is a stretch.
my maga cult deprogramming device makes my ears ring when I use it...
I saw the comment Clinton made on video and figured someone on NT right would try to make hay from it.
Her comment was more offhand than anything else, akin to spitballing. Her point was , nothing else has worked to rid our country of MAGA extremists , so maybe "de-programming" is needed. It was not a call to action , as much as some of you would like to imagine it is.
I have faith in you MAGA though, with a little effort you should be able to de-program yourselves.
It's Hillary.
Who gives a shit what the old broad says anymore?
Her 'time' has passed.
Trot out someone else, Democrats.
If you have anyone younger or smarter.
Best post on the internet today!
Apparently George does since he seeded the article.
Since she speaks for the entire democrat party, we all should care that she wants internment camps like the democrats did to the Japanese.
Since when? She's never held any position in party leadership...ever.
Just channeling the liberal talking points. Anytime the Idiot Greene does or says anything we hear she is the voice of republicans, or when Gaetz or Jordan or anybody says anything stupid on the republican side we here this is the republican position. Just returning the favor. She is as much the voice of the democrats as anybody I have mentioned is the voice of the republicans.
Just using the same tactics that are commonly used here.
Next time try logic and reason.
Tit-for-tat partisan bullshit is dumb. It's dumb when liberals do it - it's dumb when conservatives to it.
Nobody will get it, with the exception of present company. maybe?
Says who?
HAHAHAHAHAHA this from some who lost their mind from "Poison the blood", to Stretch Armstrong it into a Hitler reference.
I can never figure out if trump is an insidious genus or a complete moron by the comments from the left.
I love how you try to mansplain Hillary's comments.
I have a brain and I used it to understand other people's comments correctly. Other people I know of should try it sometime.
Well, sure. we can all make up our own version of "What Hillary Really Meant", but then that takes time away from explaining whatever falls out of Joe and Kamala's mouths.
She also observed that McCarthy "was not continuing to be captive to the far-right extremists. So they toppled him". Did she mean the 202 Dems that voted against him?
"But I think they are intimidated"
When you look at Trump rally interview videos, of which I have watched quite a few over the past 8 years, and look at social media , it is obvious that a portion of Trump supporters exist in a robotic , cult like daze in which they irrationally worship the traitor. They do need help to break the spell, but I'm convinced that many of them will go to their last days thinking Trump was the greatest thing since the grilled cheese sandwich.
Hillary apparently didn't learn anything from her 'deplorable' comment.
What a freaking moron!
It's true that calling shitty people 'deplorable' makes them mad and they won't vote for that person. She should have told them they were 'fine people' and talked bad about them behind their backs like Trump did. That's how one gets the votes!
I was puzzled why a career politician would make what I viewed as such a disastrous comment so I did some research on the psychology and effectiveness of using "shame" to control people. I now believe that it was a calculated comment that backfired spectacularly mainly because it was used by one of the most hated and divisive presidential candidates in recent history. I could research how other politicians have effectively used shame tactics to sway voters to join their herd, but people, who engage in identity politics, are the best example of how shame is constantly used in "debating" societal issues.
Hillary was fond of Saul Alinsky, and that sounds like one of his "Rules for Radicals".
I hear tell she regretted saying it, sure it cost her some votes.
Well, that was one thing besides her campaign strategy she screwed up which had been blamed for her loss.
I dont think she gives a shit. She's not running for anything.
Just out of curiosity, what percentage of Trump supporters, if any, do you think are deplorable?
Have you looked at any MAGA social media?
Is a person who continues to tell the lie that Jan 6th was a "guided tour" "deplorable" in your estimation ?
She obviously gives a shit or she would stop trying to still be relevant.
She doesnt give a shit about offending you. I thought that was obvious.
From those I personally know of both Trump or Clinton supporters - the majority.
No. Just reading a smattering of US and UK political and social news via MSN, CNN, the Daily Mail, Forbes, etc. provides me enough insight into the ineptness and corruption of governments. The criminal reports of the atrocities committed by criminals drive me to spend the majority of my time researching human psychology - which makes me an advocate for building nicer prison s for the mentally ill where they can be permanently removed from society for everyone's benefit.
I have never followed anything about Jan 6th - nor do I plan to. So I cannot discuss it at this time.
Thats interesting, I guess.
Nor does she give a shit about you.
You are just an older, woke, white male whose vote is taken for granted by the Democratic Party.
“I have never followed anything about Jan 6th - nor do I plan to“…”
Let me preface my response by saying I have always appreciated your commentary.
That being said, to willingly ignore what occurred on that sad day, and the ramifications that resonate to this day is to ignore reality. You’ve never ignored what we collectively face, so please don’t align yourself with those who but parrot the partisan line.
Peace.
Thank you for kindness and reply.
A decade ago, I embroiled my life in partisan politics online and offline. My mind and health suffered because of the fear and anger I willingly subjected myself as I dived into one rabbit hole after another.
I am not going to detail all of the rabbit holes, but I rarely take much at face value so if something interests me, I research it pretty thoroughly. If it matters to me, I leave no stone unturned.
I found a lot of nothing in far too many rabbit holes from 2016-2018 to further waste my time and effort on what ifs, maybes and might have happeneds with Trump.
It is up to the CIA, FBI, Homeland Security and special investigators to make the case against Trump. If they can't do it, then I really don't give a damn. It is above my level of research ability. It is up to the political parties to sway voters from Trump by actually enacting legislation that the majority of voters support. From what I am reading/watching, there is a move to the right in European politics currently as people are demanding secure borders and an end to massive migration.
It is not worth my mental and physical health to argue the same old, same old. I need to learn "new" things even if it means that I wind up in a non-productive rabbit hole or two.
Again, thank you for your kindness.
Peace.
Tonight I will share a fairly short meditation video that I find beneficial as a way to end my day occasionally.
Would that be in contrast to the shreiking, rabid lemming who have run with every fictional hoax thrown out there and have been trying to cover for the bumbling idiot who has taken money from our the likes of China and Ukraine?
I'm sure that you've watched him much more than me, as I find him boring. Maybe your right about worshiping him, I've thought that it was more the hate that they have for the elite, political class that clearly sees them with deep disdain.
How badly does your soul have to be wounded to cause you to worship Donald Trump? We should try to help these tortured deluded people if we can, but not at the expense of our country and our democracy.
Wow …. Look at all that rent free advertising living in your head.
Your comments get more hyperbolic every day.
No thinking person takes you serious any more. I do miss the JR that made sense at times but it appears the TDS brain rot is complete.
Too bad.
Are you trying to say that MAGA is an empty void?
Nope, my comments speaks for itself.
My advice to you is to stop projecting ….
Rent free …. Amazing
I seem to live in your head rent free.
See how that works ?
You collect Trump photos?
It takes about a minute so I do it when the situation calls for it.
I dont save them and frame them though, thats the trumpster's job.
Wrong again.
See how that shit works …..
You think more about Trump in one day than I do in a month or two. Truth be told, when I’m thinking about Trump, it is almost always because some TDS ridden fool is whining Trump this, Trump that.
Otherwise, I could care less since he isn’t the one screwing up the country right now and getting a free pass from all his Bidenettes.
This whole article and whole theme seems to be designed to take attention off our national traitor DJT.
Some people think every article not about Trump is a distraction. Why can't liberals focus more instead of being so easily distracted?
No worries of that here.
Not with constant TDS ridden whine that proliferates this place nearly every day.
first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye.
Hillary is an evil bitch of a sea hag.
Always has been but at least her useful idiots still love her.
Talk about a cult ……
I just got a PM, sea hags are demanding an apology for that unfair comparison.
My bad.
My apologies to Sea Hag Local 666 ……