ARE A THIRD OF AMERICANS LOST TO HATE?
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 2 May 2022
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Is it time to start calling Republicans out for white supremacy? Or is that part of the population just a lost cause? Plus - Professor Yascha Mounk shares the findings of his new book, "The Great Experiment: Why Diverse Democracies Fall Apart and How They Can Endure".
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| 0:47.8 | Well, happy May. It's kind of still spring here in Portland. I may have maybe even winter. |
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| 0:58.2 | I want to start out with my rant from HartmanReport.com. It's titled The Third of America's Lost to Hate |
| 1:03.9 | is a time to move on. And my basic premise is that it's time for us to stop normalizing these people. |
| 1:10.9 | Oh, they're just Republicans. It's time to stop accommodating these white supremacists. |
| 1:16.6 | Well, yes, we're going to have these people on our program, but we're not going to point out the fact |
| 1:20.4 | that they're white supremacists. Yes, Tom Kodner, or whoever it may, one of these Republicans |
| 1:25.6 | from the hearings with Judge Jackson and whatnot. Let's start calling them out. |
| 1:30.8 | If The Third of America is lost to racism, and I really think that's true, |
| 1:37.3 | roughly half a white people who voted for Donald Trump and who are just like, they are stuck in |
| 1:43.3 | the past. They want to return America to a past that was America when I was born. I was born |
| 1:51.3 | in the 1950s, and I remember the 1950s, and it was a very different America. |
| 1:58.8 | And we're not going to go back to that, but these people think they can do it. They really think |
| 2:03.0 | they can do it. In the 1950s, the decade where I was born, I was born in 51, so I remember at |
| 2:10.1 | least the last five years of that decade quite well. Blacks and other minorities, depending on where |
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