ARE REPUBLICANS FACING A BRANDING CRISIS?
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 25 February 2023
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
The GOP’s deepest brand is white, straight, authoritarian, wealthy & religiously fundamentalist. Their vulnerability is that they can be recast as bigoted, homophobic, fascistic, greedy & hypocritical National Progressive Town Hall with Rep. Ro Khanna. Plus, Trump's white supremacist dinner date was put on the No Fly List after threatening to strangle a flight attendant.
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| 0:42.7 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:46.0 | And greetings my friends, patriots, lovers of democracy, truth and justice, |
| 0:50.8 | believers in peace, freedom and the American way Tom Hartman here with you. |
| 0:55.0 | Congressman Kana will be with us in just a moment. |
| 0:57.6 | Congressman Rokana, if you'd like to get in on our national town hall meeting, progressive town hall meeting with him. |
| 1:03.5 | Also, Donald Trump's white supremacist dinner date has been put on the no-fly list and the reason why is hysterical. |
| 1:09.8 | We'll tell you about that. So that's all stuff that's coming up today. |
| 1:13.7 | But first of all, my op-ed today over at Hartmanreport.com is titled our Republicans facing a branding crisis. |
| 1:21.2 | And it's marked quite a conversation. |
| 1:24.0 | I've got, let's see here, refresh the page. |
| 1:26.8 | I've got 26 comments just over there. |
| 1:30.8 | And what I'm saying here is that the Democrats used to, first of all, |
| 1:36.7 | that brands branding is built into our DNA, right? |
| 1:42.0 | This is how the ability to look at something and immediately understand its meaning and its |
| 1:48.0 | personal meaning, whether it's something as a threat to us or whether it's supportive of us, |
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