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The Hartmann Report

Daily Take: Last Chance to Stop a Dictatorship — and Trump Knows It

The Hartmann Report

Thom Hartmann

News, Debate, The Hartmann Report, Economics, Thom Hartmann, Democracy, Climate Change, Congress, America

4.51.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

He’s firing the FBI, silencing the press, and dismantling Democracy: The window to fight back Is closing quickly...

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1:05.6

Trump wants FBI agents who investigated his coup attempt, his facilitating espionage, or his other financial and criminal

1:13.0

activities fired. Let's be clear. This is how dictatorships start. A guy who wants to be a dictator

1:20.1

always begins by changing how the government works. Even though the majority of the nation had

1:25.3

agreed previously that the government should do certain things in certain ways,

1:28.8

he reassures everybody, he's got a better way, and it'll all work out.

1:33.4

In the process, he breaks a bunch of laws, but people mostly shrug because they don't directly affect them.

1:39.6

Pastor Niemöller wrote about this in 1930s, Germany.

1:43.3

First they came for the government workers.

1:45.9

Then people start resisting, which is when he begins to use the police power of the state.

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