Donald Trump Jr. on Friday slammed “reptile” Hillary Clinton over her call for Trump supporters to be “deprogrammed.”
Appearing on Newsmax with host Eric Bolling, he likened her to historical dictators like Mao and Pol Pot. He also warned that her rhetoric is proof that a win for Democrats in 2024 means conservatives being shipped off to reeducation camps.
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“She just can’t help herself. But what should be really scary, I think, to everyone, Eric, is that she’s saying the parts that the Democrats want to keep under wraps out loud. They want to send you for deprogramming, you know? Sounds a little bit like reeducation,” he began.
“I don’t know in history where that’s worked out well, you know, whether it was Mao, whether it was Pol Pot. I mean, these are dictatorial concepts. These come from totalitarian type governments that have killed millions and millions of people the world over,” he added.
Yet, he continued, this rhetoric “is now mainstay language within the Democrat Party,” meaning one thing: “If you vote for Democrats in 2024, you are literally voting to send your friends, maybe your conservative uncle to the reeducation camps in time. They’re not pretending.”
“If you don’t go lockstep with every radical, insane, ridiculous idea that they put forward on a daily basis, you’re going to reeducation and it’s only a matter of time,” he further noted.
Responding to Trump’s remarks, Bolling then asked him what he believed motivated Clinton to make such a nasty, deplorable remark.
“I think she says it because she’s got the worst personality of any person in the history of politics. She doesn’t understand people, she doesn’t have any feelings. She’s like a reptile,” the junior Trump replied.
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The former secretary of state and failed 2016 presidential candidate’s unprecedented attack on Trump supporters also garnered criticism from Daniel McCarthy, the editor-at-large for The American Conservative.
Writing in the New York Post on Friday, he made the case that it’s leftists like Clinton who need deprogramming — “from smug elitism.”
“Non-Democrats know that for all Clinton’s attempts to draw a distinction between Trump supporters and ‘sane’ Republicans, she and her confreres have a low regard for anyone who doesn’t share their progressive politics,” McCarthy wrote.
“In 2008 Barack Obama characterized voters in small-town Pennsylvania who ‘cling to guns or religion’ as ‘bitter’ and harboring ‘antipathy to people who aren’t like them, or anti-immigrant sentiment, or anti-trade sentiment, as a way to explain their frustrations,'” he added.
And in 1993, The Washington Post made fun of conservative Christians, portraying them as “largely poor, uneducated and easy to command.”
See a pattern? It’s no surprise then that these “deplorables,” as Clinton herself called them in 2016, eventually turned to populism — something modern leftists loathe.
“In an earlier era, liberals saw themselves as champions of the everyman. Now they shun populism — and are appalled when it finds a new home in the GOP,” McCarthy explained.
“The likes of Hillary Clinton respond not by wondering how they can win back the voters they’ve lost but by demonizing them and dismissing any alternative to the elite liberal point of view,” he added.
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All this comes a day after Clinton argued during a CNN appearance on Thursday that Trump supporters are “cult members” who need “formal deprogramming” to make them “sane” again.
As an example of a “sane” person, she pointed to the congressional Republicans who’d voted with Democrats on a continuing resolution to fund the government.
“You saw the number of Republicans who voted along with Democrats to keep the government open, so there’s clearly a common sense, sane part of the Republican caucus in the House. But I think they are intimidated,” she said.
“They oftentimes, you know, 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,” she added.
She continued by making the case that back in her day, there used to be “bitter battles” over the issues of the day but without the specter of “extremism.”
“That’s the way it used to be. I mean, we 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. But there wasn’t this little tail of extremism wagging the dog of the Republican Party as it is today,” she said.
She then tied everything in with her nemesis, former President Donald Trump, who seven years ago crushed her in the 2016 presidential election.
“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. He’s only in it for himself,” she said.
“He’s now defending himself in civil actions and criminal actions, and when do they break with him? You know, because at some point, you know, maybe there needs to be a formal deprogramming of the cult members. But something needs to happen,” she added.
At this point in the interview, CNN’s Christiane Amanpour asked Clinton “how” exactly she’d deprogram Trump supporters.
“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, and we have to just be smarter about how we are trying to empower the right people inside the Republican Party,” Clinton replied.
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V. Saxena is a staff writer with a decade of experience as a professional writer, and a lifetime of experience as an avid news junkie. He holds a degree in computer technology from Purdue University. Saxena also contributes to BizPac Review.
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