Daily Take: “America's Comeback” Is Nothing but a Con Job
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 16 September 2025
⏱️ 15 minutes
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The recycled lies of trickle-down economics, designed to crush workers, women, and minorities alike…
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| 0:00.0 | So you just got back from your summer vacation, right? Maybe even had to book two rooms |
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| 0:50.9 | by visiting zepa.com and using the code pink or text tom to 511511. Remember zipa's happy z |
| 0:57.5 | spelled backwards text fees may apply. America's comeback is nothing but a con job. When Charlie |
| 1:06.7 | Kirk was assassinated, he was sitting under a tent that had America Comeback Tour printed in huge |
| 1:13.5 | letters across all four sides. It was the theme of his tour of college campuses, a tour run by |
| 1:18.4 | his Turning Port Point organization that was, according to NBC News, early funded by 10 morbidly rich |
| 1:25.5 | right-wingers. The question is, America come back to what? |
| 1:31.0 | In 1981, when Ronald Reagan was sworn into office, fully two-thirds of Americans were in the middle |
| 1:36.1 | class. College was so cheap, you could pay your tuition with a weekend job. Health care was |
| 1:40.7 | inexpensive and widely available. Women and minorities had achieved legal, albeit not yet actual parity with white men. |
| 1:48.4 | And school and mass shootings are largely unknown because weapons of war were mostly outlawed from our streets. |
| 1:54.7 | Today, however, as a result of the Reagan Revolution, only around half of us are in the middle class. |
| 1:59.9 | College debt has crushed two generations |
| 2:01.9 | to the point where they can't start a family or buy a house. A half million families end up homeless |
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