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The Hartmann Report

Daily Take: The Great American Heist: How Reagan, Trump, and Their Billionaire Backers Stole the Middle Class

The Hartmann Report

Thom Hartmann

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

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🗓️ 4 November 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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A 50-year project to turn the world’s strongest democracy into a playground for the rich...


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The Great American Heist, how Reagan, Trump, and their billionaire backers stole the middle class.

1:08.3

It's Election Day in much of America, although the biggest races are in California, Virginia,

1:13.1

New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maine, and New York City.

1:15.9

As a bellwether for next year's midterms that could define the fate and future of Trumpism,

1:21.2

stakes are enormous and are bleeding through into social media.

1:25.4

One of those viral Facebook posts yesterday was from a MAGA mom complaining

1:29.3

that her Democratic mother-in-law wouldn't loan her grocery money. She explains that she can't feed her

1:34.9

family because Trump's government shutdown has frozen her snap, you know, food stamps and WIC benefits.

1:40.5

And she wrote, quote, he asked his mother to buy a can a baby formula until our wick comes in.

1:45.5

Her response was, we voted for this.

1:48.3

The most common responses were variations on.

1:51.6

That's what you wanted when you voted for that orange ass, but you must have thought he'd only do it to black and Hispanic people.

2:00.7

F-A-F-O, ha-ha.

2:02.4

Along those same lines, Trump went on 60 minutes this weekend and lied to Leslie Stahl's face multiple times,

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