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The Hartmann Report

Daily Take: The Great American Betrayal: Trump’s War on Ordinary People

The Hartmann Report

Thom Hartmann

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🗓️ 18 August 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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He promised to drain the swamp — instead he filled it with billionaires, crooks, and fascists…

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The great American betrayal trumps war on ordinary people.

1:06.4

Donald Trump represents the most recent and destructive iteration of the American right. The old confederacy

1:13.2

was built on right-wing oligarchy and racism. Since the Democratic Party abandoned the clan and

1:19.3

the lost cause in the 1960s, the Republicans picked up that mantle, and Trump, a lifelong

1:24.7

racist, was ideally suited to lead the new GOP movement.

1:29.2

Trump exclusively serves whoever pays the biggest bribes, either in cash 747 or votes,

1:36.4

who today are mostly the big monopolistic businesses, the morbidly rich, foreign dictators,

1:41.8

so-called Christian hustlers, and the Republican base of male white

1:46.0

supremacist racists. Lyndon Johnson famously said of Nixon's Law and Order racism campaign,

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