A longtime Donald Trump supporter called in to C-SPAN on Saturday to lay out his buyer’s remorse over the president.
“Now I understand how somebody like Adolf Hitler was able to brainwash millions of people,” the caller told host Taylor Popielarz on C-SPAN’s “Washington Journal.”
“I never I thought I’d see that again in my lifetime. But it’s happened, right? I thought we got past that, but we don’t learn from history.” (Check out his call in the clip below.)
The caller — who was identified as a three-time Trump voter named “Thomas” from Hawaii — began his message with, “It’s hard for me to say this, but I think if I can open up about it in public that it might help others.”
He said he wanted to believe Trump was “the real deal” although he had doubts as he “knew enough about his business history to think otherwise.”
“But now I regret my support for him, and I should’ve known better,” Thomas explained.
“He’s making it plain as day. He’s ...
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