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The Hartmann Report

Daily Take: How America Changes If Trump Wins

The Hartmann Report

Thom Hartmann

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🗓️ 19 July 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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They don’t want to tweak government; they want to burn it down and start over from scratch…

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How America will change if Trump wins.

0:05.0

Today following both Vance's and Trump's speeches at the RNC,

0:09.0

the future trajectory of America if they're elected is pretty clear.

0:13.0

First, it's important to acknowledge that this is no longer your or my father's GOP.

0:18.0

Vance is the prepoc package well-massaged product of a group of Silicon Valley billionaires. a Trump has made it clear he's happy to go along with the Galtz-Galtz crowd particularly if it makes

0:36.2

him more money.

0:37.6

These men, that are nearly all men, are revolutionary with little regard for political history

0:42.4

or norms.

0:43.7

Think Mao, Lenin, Paul Potter, Mussolini.

0:47.0

They don't want to tweak government.

0:48.2

They want to burn it down and start it over from scratch.

0:52.2

Rebuild it has a completely different system of governance.

0:56.0

They're convinced that the post- 1933 New Deal America is a mistake and, along with their

1:02.3

allies on the Supreme Court are dedicated to

1:05.0

deconstructing the administrative state that came out of FDR's reforms in

1:09.7

the reinvention of the American system. And they have a couple of models they seem committed to following.

1:15.0

Victor Orban's Hungary is probably the most prominent.

1:18.0

He's already done pretty much everything on the list before,

1:21.0

and what he hasn't done he's openly considering or

1:23.9

will do to hang on to power. If you're not familiar with Orban and how he's

1:28.4

transformed his nation into what he calls an illiberal democracy I've written extensively about him here and here

1:35.7

and Trump rambled at length about him last night.

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