Liberal social media since the election has been a true acid bath.

We’ve reported on how some on the left seem to think the election has given them license to advocate retribution against people who have supported or “enabled” Trump, even putting people on “lists” to harass, deny jobs or drum out of society. Included on those lists are judges appointed by Trump and people giving legal advice to his campaign. One of his lawyers, Linda Kerns, had to withdraw from his case, noting the threats against her.

But a Regional director for California Democrats/DNC member out of California, David Atkins, set tongues wagging after he tweeted about how to “deprogram” 75 million Trump supporters.

No seriously…how *do* you deprogram 75 million people? Where do you start? Fox? Facebook?

We have to start thinking in terms of post-WWII Germany or Japan. Or the failures of Reconstruction in the South.

— David Atkins (@DavidOAtkins) November 18, 2020

Oh, that’s not too crazy or anything, is it? Talk about fascistic, sounds a lot like he’s advocating “re-education” of those benighted Trump supporters. But this is a Democratic operative, not just a random crazy on Twitter who just won a DNC position.

According to him, it’s not about policy differences. He claims Trump supporters are a “conspiracy theory fueled belligerent death cult.”

This is not your standard partisan policy disagreement. This is a conspiracy theory fueled belligerent death cult against reality & basic decency.

The only actual policy debates of note are happening within the dem coalition between left and center left.

— David Atkins (@DavidOAtkins) November 18, 2020

Should we remind Atkins how Democrats have pushed conspiracy theories for the past four years? How they tried to undermine the duly-elected president? How they’ve pushed nonsensical Russia collusion stories and believed any anti-Trump story that came down the media pike? Talk about the cult of the “resistors.”

I know conservatives are upset by some of the responses here. And yeah, many are out of line.

But what do you expect people to do in self-preservation? The Right has been running 4 years on “fuck your feelings, my conspiracy theories are valid opinions, and we have more guns.”

— David Atkins (@DavidOAtkins) November 19, 2020

You can’t run on a civil war footing hopped up on conspiracy theories hating everyone who lives in cities, mainlining Fox/Breitbart/QAnon, threatening to kidnap governors and shoot protesters, without people trying to figure out how to reverse the brainwashing.

— David Atkins (@DavidOAtkins) November 19, 2020

Here he is pushing a “conspiracy theory” himself thinking that 75 million brainwashed Americans are looking to kidnap governors and “shoot protesters.” Um, dude? That’s delusional and that’s cult-like that you think that? Not to mention that the people who wanted to kidnap the governor were anarchists who hated Trump too. It isn’t Trump supporters going around trying to “shoot protesters,” it’s literally radical leftists who have shot people including Trump supporters and radical leftists who’ve been rioting, attacking police and people, and burning cities for months.

Then he pushes this nonsensical claim that people are “literally giving themselves COVID just to own the libs.” Um, this this literal nutters-vile.

i mean, for chrissakes, conservatives are literally giving themselves COVID just to own the libs. They’re dying in COVID wards insisting they don’t have COVID because it must be a liberal plot.

People are gonna try to figure out how to defend themselves.

— David Atkins (@DavidOAtkins) November 19, 2020

People are gone try to figure out how to defend themselves. Well, that’s not a little concerning given the rest of the raving lunacy he’s propounded.

What’s really troubling is that he’s gotten almost 60 thousand likes for this cultish crazy.

He got a ton of backlash.

A Democrat Party official in California is calling for national re-education camps for families who voted for Trump.

This is not ok. pic.twitter.com/oHIgApHuuZ

— Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) November 19, 2020

Wow, These people are insane.

David Atkins is a nazi.

Deprogram 75 million people and start thinking in terms of post-WWII Germany or Japan https://t.co/LA7EjGgRKA

— H.M.sthIm (@HM_sthIm) November 19, 2020

Holy shit. The only thing creepier and more alarming than this tweet is how many times it's been liked and re-tweeted.

If you don't recognize the intense strain of authoritarianism in this new ruling coalition, you see nothing about US politics. Just look at it: https://t.co/70VpAT9SZq

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) November 19, 2020

So much so that he tried to back off somewhat. But he was still delusional.

And yes, it might be healthy to break the spell of the cult programming by showing COVID wards, the kids in cages and other victims and consequences of the conservative infotainment cult on the local news, the newspapers, social media, etc, so that people see what they have done.

— David Atkins (@DavidOAtkins) November 19, 2020

But he still doesn’t get how his very response is itself a “cult” response. And, as our Jennifer Van Laar writes, this isn’t the first time Atkins has shown this propensity.

But just remember, this is the “unity” they envision. The unity of one opinion. Theirs. You must agree. Or they will re-program you into it. Talk about fascist.

HT: Twitchy