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Talk of 'Deprogramming' Trump Supporters is Giving Refugees from Communism 'Flashbacks'

Talk of 'Deprogramming' Trump Supporters is Giving Refugees from Communism 'Flashbacks' Read Transcript


- [Dale] This was an attorney for PBS

caught on camera, saying that children

of Trump supporters should betaken away from their parents

and put in re-education camps.

He was later fired.

While voices in the media still call

for Trump supporters to be deprogrammed.

- There are millions ofAmericans, almost all White,

almost all Republicans, who somehow

need to be deprogrammed.

- And the question is, how are we going to

really almost deprogram these people

who have signed up for the cult of Trump?

- Trump supporters are alsobeing called mentally ill

and are being censored,doxxed, deplatformed,

blacklisted and demonetized.

It's giving some who have lived

in Communist countries flashbacks.

For those who lived underCommunist dictatorships,

what's happening in Americahas some disturbing parallels.

Chinese pastor Bob Fu was a student leader

during the Tiananmen Square

pro-democracy demonstrations in 1989.

He was also a proud attendee

of the January 6th Trumprally on the National Mall.

He says the call toreeducate and deprogram

Trump supporters is straight out of

the Chinese Communist Party playbook.

- It's absolutely these kind of tactics.

They all requires forced conformity.

If you don't comply, thenyou will be punished.

- [Dale] Elizabeth Rogliani's family

had to flee Venezuela whenHugo Chavez took power.

Her video warning last year to Americans

about the similarities between the Antifa

and Black Lives Matter rioting

and what happened in Venezuela went viral.

- I've already lived through this thing

when I was living in Venezuela.

- [Dale] She says thelabeling of Trump supporters

as potential domesticterrorists was a tactic

Hugo Chavez used to stigmatizehis political opposition.

- Calling out opposition or Republicans

as terrorists or fascists, that is

the kinda language I saw a lot.

Late President Hugo Chavez used to call us

fascists and terrorists as well.

- [Dale] Rogliani says oneominous sign for America

has been all the Conservatives flocking

to more secure messagingplatforms like Telegram

because that's exactlywhat happened in Venezuela

when the Democraticopposition was deplatformed

and opposition leadersbegan to be arrested.

- We jumped into Telegram really early on.

So I had it for years.

I find that very interesting how

it's happening so fast here.

- [Dale] Jason Poblete's grandfather

had to flee Cuba whenFidel Castro took power.

Poblete, an attorney whohas worked in Congress

is President of theGlobal Liberty Alliance,

and says what happened in Cuba

is replaying in the United States.

- Dale, it's painful to watch.

It's not something that I ever thought

I would see in the United States.

In Cuba, the socialist facilitators

had been laying the groundwork,

and by the time Fidel Castro rolled in,

they had already laidthat framework in place

to take the government over.

- [Dale] German evangelistand author, Heidi Mund

grew up in former Communist East Germany,

which called itself theGerman Democratic Republic,

and she has harsh wordsfor America's Democrats.

- Your Democrats remind me to

the German Democratic Republic,

so, the Communist part of Germany,

the East part of Germany.

They also called themselves Democrats,

but they were socialists, Communists.

- [Dale] When Heidi as a young woman

began to speak out againstthe East German government,

she paid the price.

- My career stopped,you know, it was broken.

So I could not find a job anymore.

- [Dale] Dissidents in East Germany

and the old Soviet Bloc werealso called mentally ill

and sent to hospitals asthey are today in China.

Children were also takenaway from dissidents.

- In East Germany, they took away,

they really took away children.

They put them in orphanages and parents

did not get them back.

- [Dale] These voices warningAmericans are not alone.

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki

has compared the treatmentof President Trump

to Poland's Communist era.

Russian opposition leader, Alexei Navalny,

sentenced last week to twoyears in a penal colony

by Vladimir Putin's Russian government

called Donald Trump's Twitter ban

an unacceptable act of censorship.

- All this, you know, deplatforming,

this kind of thing areexactly happening in China.

They're using the similartactics with the same playbook.

- [Dale] Jason Pobletesaid if his grandfather,

who loved America deeply, was alive today

to see how Trump supportersare being demonized,

he would be scared.

- Then he would tell me, hey Jason,

what are you doing about it, (laughing)

because you can't go anywhere.

I mean, this is it.

There's nowhere for us to go.

- [Dale] Dale Hurd, CBN News.

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