Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said there needs to be a “formal deprogramming” of supporters of former President Donald Trump, calling them “cult members.”
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said there needs to be a “formal deprogramming” of supporters of former President Donald Trump, calling them “cult members.”
“Maybe there needs to be a formal deprogramming of the cult members,” the former Democratic presidential nominee said in a CNN interview posted Thursday.
She said the two parties need to find a way to work together again because that’s how it used to be, even though there were “very bitter battles” over policies such as gun control, climate change, the economy and taxes.
“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 said. “That’s the way it used to be.”
“But there wasn’t this little tail of extremism, waving, you know, wagging the dog of the Republican Party as it is today,” she said. “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.
