Daily Take: The Long Con: Why Every Republican Policy—From Guns to Healthcare to Taxes—Harms the Public & Enriches the Few
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Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 28 August 2025
⏱️ 19 minutes
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For decades, the GOP has perfected the art of sabotage, turning government into a racket where the suffering of millions is simply the cost of keeping billionaires happy…
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| 1:19.0 | The Long Khan, why every Republican policy from guns to health care to taxes, harms the public, and enriches the few. |
| 1:29.5 | Yesterday there was another highly publicized school shooting. |
| 1:33.3 | Republicans, as usual, are offering thoughts and prayers. |
| 1:37.6 | But why? |
| 1:38.7 | Why have Republicans, who before Reagan were the party in favor of gun control, |
| 1:43.5 | decided that it's just fine for America |
| 1:45.3 | to be the only country in the world where the leading cause of childhood deaths and injury is bullets. |
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| 1:56.9 | programs like the interstate freeways and new schools coast to coast, decided instead to |
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