They are impossibly mired in lies and hatred, but they have at times been oddly forthright about their plans, such as when Nancy Pelosi declared that Trump would lead at the end of election night but would not win, and when the New York Times claimed that the media would declare the winner of the presidential election, just as it is doing now. So when so many prominent Leftists are calling for the reeducation of Trump supporters or else their total ostracism from society, no one would be wise to dismiss these calls as empty threats.

As PJ Media noted on October 21, Bill Clinton's Labor Secretary Robert B. "Third" Reich got the ball rolling when he tweeted: "When this nightmare is over, we need a Truth and Reconciliation Commission. It would erase Trump's lies, comfort those who have been harmed by his hatefulness, and name every official, politician, executive, and media mogul whose greed and cowardice enabled this catastrophe."

It quickly became clear that this wasn't just Reich's individual lust for Maoism, as numerous others quickly echoed him. Recalling Stalin's practice of putting his political opponents in mental hospitals, MSNBC's Chris Hayes couched his call in humanitarian terms: "The most humane and reasonable way to deal with all these people, if we survive this, is some kind of truth and reconciliation commission."

Neocon Never-Trumper William Kristol, out for blood, then exposed the vengeful core of all this when he responded to Hayes with, "How about truth and no reconciliation?" Sarah Taylor, a professor at Cal East Bay, was likewise in no mood for forgiveness: "What we need is more along the lines of a Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Empathy at this point would be completely counterproductive – it would exacerbate the harms that have already been done."