Daily Take: The Rise of Trump’s Thugs?
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
4.3 • 8 Ratings
🗓️ 9 January 2025
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Summary
Trump has long admired dictators who weaponize civilian gangs to crush dissent. Will his next chapter involve unleashing his own militias to terrorize the American public?
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| 1:00.7 | The rise of Trump's thugs? |
| 1:03.8 | One of those common characteristics of rule by an authoritarian who's taken over a democracy |
| 1:08.6 | is his use of unofficial civilian paramilitary groups and |
| 1:12.7 | militia gangs to terrorize or even kill his political opponents. |
| 1:17.4 | Back in the day, Hitler had his brown shirts. Mussolini had black shirts. |
| 1:21.9 | The practice has since been far more, become far more widespread, routine almost. |
| 1:26.6 | As we can see across multiple formerly |
| 1:29.3 | Democratic nations taken over by election during the past three decades. Putin uses a nationwide |
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