I believe that when TM said "the same people", he was referring to 'kind', and assumed that most would understand, it is the same kind of people who brought Communism's glories to China, Cuba, Venezuela, and Pol Pot's Cambodia.
That is the same 'kind' of people who are trying to bring it here, except they have not completely outlawed "religion",
since our brand of commies, bow to their nature goddess, Gaia..