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