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This is the Tom Hartman program.

My op-ed today over at HartmanReport.com is titled Will America See a Second Major Renewal of the

Middle class. And it's actually a fairly optimistic piece. I mean, I start off by pointing out

that a lot of us are experiencing despair over the state of affairs in America.

Women and queer people are being forced back into the kitchen and closet. Climate change is

killing scores of Americans every week. Our schools and public areas are under constant assault

by armed Republican gangs and Republican sanctioned mass shooters.

Over the past decade, more than a million lives have been lost to what are called deaths

of despair as a result of our 40-year experiment with Reaganomics and neoliberalism.

And it's not just democratic or excuse me, domestic bad news coming out of the Republican party's

open opposition to democracy. After Trump betrayed Ukraine, Russia invaded that country.

China is openly threatening a similar sort of war against Taiwan. I mean, there's a lot to be

concerned about. But nonetheless, I'm actually quite hopeful right now. I think we're on the

cusp of a new great turning of American history, a replay of the crisis into which Franklin Roosevelt

stepped four generations ago, maybe five, while revisiting many of the same solutions. And ironically,

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