MSNBC analyst says Trump supporters need to be ‘deprogrammed’

This kind of talk has been floating around the Progressive New Left for decades. When I was an undergrad at SF State Saigon, Phnom Penh, and Vientiene had fallen, Yellow Rain was falling, Reeducation camps sprung up like mushrooms after that Yellow Rain and millions either fled or were incarcerated. The reaction of leftists in this country was a big ho-hum and a shrug of the shoulders. When directly confronted with the logical and factual contradictions of Southeast Asian “liberation” very, very few would engage in honest discussion. Very few repudiated their premises preexisting the fall of Southeast Asia. This should have come as no surprise to anyone. Only a select few on the left ever questioned their opposition to the war, not the conduct, but the war itself. William Shawcross was one of the few. I had a chance to hear him speak early on in late 1976 when the evidence started coming out of mass incarceration and use of chemical weapons. He was vilified and excommunicated for his witness. The rest of leftist America and Europe tacitly concurred in the mass totalitarian oppression of SE Asia. Today they respond to that history with blank stares and silence. That, along with intellectual suppression of Soviet, Maoist and other communist atrocities proves their willingness to do nasty things and remain silent. That is exactly why this is possible here. As Hannah Arendt tells us, the banality of evil is the means to execute the motive. I have never met a more banal class than the American Progressive.

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