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The Hartmann Report

Daily Take: This Isn’t About Pocketbook Politics — It’s About the Survival of the American Ideal

The Hartmann Report

Thom Hartmann

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

4.41.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Every failed democracy has one thing in common: the people assumed someone else would save it...

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0:00.0

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0:07.5

I've been shopping at Quince for some time.

0:09.5

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0:15.8

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0:17.2

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0:19.3

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0:21.4

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0:25.8

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0:30.3

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0:35.1

responsible manufacturing practices and premium fabrics and finishes.

0:39.2

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0:43.8

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0:57.7

Quince.com slash Tom.

1:00.6

This isn't about pocketbook politics.

1:04.2

It's about the survival of the American ideal.

1:09.0

Donald Trump didn't just try to overturn an election. He's trying to overturn

1:12.6

the very idea, the reality of what has historically made America great. While the media fixates

1:22.3

on trials, gaffs, and polls were all missing the real story. Trump's waste fraud and abuse campaign is a direct

1:30.1

assault on everything that once made this country a global leader and a moral force. His goal isn't to

1:38.6

restore American greatness. It's to dismantle it, to trade it away as strongmen like Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping,

1:46.6

and to drag the United States into the emerging authoritarian access

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