by R. Cort Kirkwood, The New American:
Hillary Clinton isn’t the only Democrat who wants supporters of former President Trump imprisoned and brainwashed.
So does Democratic congressional candidate Paula Collins, who’s running against GOP Representative Elise Stefanik for New York’s 21st Congressional District.
She proposed sending those who never-Trumpers call “Trumpanzees” to “re-education camps,” just as Clinton did in October. And it’s of a piece with the increasingly violent, threatening language Democrats use when discussing Trump and his supporters.
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Lunatic Proposal
A “cannabis tax attorney,” whatever that is, Collins “made the shocking suggestion during a virtual town hall event on Wednesday and argued that there is a need for such camps even if Democrats see a ‘resounding blue wave’ in the 2024 election,” the New York Post reported:
Collins, 60, argued that “knowing your civics, knowing how the government is set up will be crucially important in moving forward” before suggesting the need for “re-education” during the Zoom event.
“Even if we were to have a resounding blue wave come through, as many of us would like, putting it all back together again after we’ve gone through this MAGA nightmare and re-educating basically, which that sounds like a rather, a re-education camp,” Collins said.
“I don’t think we really wanna call it that,” she told voters on the call. “I’m sure we can find another way to phrase it.”
Stefanik was quick to respond.
Noting that Collins is a carpetbagger who didn’t live in the 21st District until she started running for office, Stefanik senior advisor Alex DeGrasse roasted her:
“This radical New York City Democrat Socialist who literally is renting a bed and breakfast room in NY-21 was caught on tape saying she wants to force Trump voters through ‘re-education camps,’” DeGrasse told The Post.
“Everyone knows she will be defeated by Elise Stefanik by a historic margin,” he added. “This is yet another reason why President Trump, Elise Stefanik, and voters in Upstate and across America will clean the Democrats’ clocks at the ballot box this November.”
Frighteningly, Collins didn’t back down. Instead, speaking to Fox News, she discussed a wide-ranging — and perhaps mandatory — re-education plan.
“We currently have lawmakers, including Rep. Elise Stefanik, who mis-quote or mis-understand the law,” the “cannabis tax attorney” told Fox News:
Even if MAGA were to be resoundingly defeated, we would need to engage in widespread civics education, which both red and blue voters acknowledge has been slipping in recent years.
The goal would be such that regular citizens could understand the process by which the state courts process matters, compared to the federal court circuit, and so forth.
Echoes Clinton
How much cannabis Collins has been ingesting is unclear, but whatever the amount, she essentially repeated what Hillary Clinton said.
As The New American reported in October, in a gaseous exchange with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour, Clinton drew a distinction between “sane” Republicans and the Trump “cult” that needed “deprogramming.”
“We had very strong partisans in both parties in the past. And we had very bitter battles over all kinds of things,” Clinton said. “But there wasn’t this little tail of extremism, waving, you know, wagging the dog of the Republican Party as it is today.”
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