"MAGA" Trump supporters should attend a "re-education camp" after the 2024 election — even if Democrats see a "resounding blue wave," according to Democrat congressional candidate, Paula Collins while speaking to supporters during a Zoom Townhall.
Collins said on 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 did not elaborate on her plans to put nearly 75 million American voters and their families into re-education camps.
Collins is running unopposed in the Democratic primary and will face Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-21) in November. At one point during the Zoom call, she mentioned that "re-education" camps would be controversial.
“I don’t think we really want call it (re-education camps) that. I’m sure we can find another way to phrase it," Collins said.
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” camps.
“Joe Biden and Democrats up and down the ballot are attacking democracy by weaponizing lawfare against President Trump and now threatening ‘re-education camps’ for Trump voters. Joe Biden, Hakeem Jeffries, and Chuck Schumer must immediately condemn this,” Stefanik responded.
Collins is not the only one making extreme comments about Trump supporters. She follows the same playbook as other left-wing extremist Democrats by alienating regular American Republican voters. They lump all Trump supporters into the now proverbial "basket of deplorables".
Collins’ “re-education camp” remarks are akin to Hillary Clinton’s remarks last year when she was lamenting her loss to Trump in 2016. She called supporters of Trump “cult members” and “MAGA extremists” while suggesting that they need to be “neutralized” and undergo “a formal deprogramming”.
Alex DeGrasse, Senior Advisor to Stefanik said, "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.’”
Collins currently rents a room in a rental unit in Canton, N.Y. to claim residency in the district.
“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,” Degrasse added.
Alex Edmiston said on X, “And they compare Trump to Hitler!” Also on X, “We need Stefanik to defeat this Hitler ideology. That if you don’t agree with someone you put them in a reeducation camp. Can’t believe what we’re hearing in 2024. She’s threatening Americans.”