What liberal America gets wrong about Trump supporters

Hillary Clinton normally speaks in carefully crafted bromides, so when I read in the New York Post about her risqué suggestion during a televised interview with CNN that ‘maybe there needs to be a formal deprogramming of the cult members’ supporting Donald Trump, I took notice.

Had the grimly platitudinous former secretary of state suddenly developed a sense of humour? Was she workshopping new material with a comedy coach?

When I watched her interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour, however, I detected no irony whatsoever in Clinton’s face. Indeed, she was so straightforwardly monotone that I thought perhaps Trump’s one-time presidential opponent had herself been captured by a cult.

Mrs. Clinton is hardly alone among liberals in her professed despair about a possible second Trump term. Grave warnings of the former president’s existential threat to American democracy have become so commonplace in today’s Democratic party that any attempt to poke fun at Trump – simply to ridicule him – would likely be viewed as appeasement of a dangerous fascist.