Clinton's deprogramming' hopes for Trump supporters a long shot in era of political silos

Communications experts spoke about Hillary Clinton's idea to have a "formal deprogramming" of Trump supporters, with some saying she has to ditch that kind of rhetoric.

"Academics have long studied whether political persuasion is possible," Arizona State political scientist Matthew Dempsey told Fox News Digital. "The short answer is that it is very, very difficult to get citizens to have long-term attitude or belief change. And now, in the age of ‘fake news’ and distrusted information sources, it's even more difficult to expose citizens ‘to the facts,’ to have that information be believed, and potentially then be open to opinion change." Gabriel Hays is an associate editor for Fox News Digital. 

Clinton made the remarks in a CNN interview last week, telling anchor Christiane Amanpour, "Sadly, so many of those extremists, those MAGA extremists take their marching orders from Donald Trump, who has no credibility left by any measure. He's only in it for himself. He's now defending himself in civil actions and criminal actions. And when do they break with him?"