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The Hartmann Report

Daily Take: Twelve Steps to National Collapse: A Blueprint for How Democracies Die

The Hartmann Report

Thom Hartmann

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

4.3 • 8 Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

A historian’s alarm: when these twelve familiar steps appear in a nation, the result is often irreversible—unless citizens rise up and demand otherwise…

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Twelve steps to national collapse, a blueprint for how democracies die.

1:07.1

The article today opens with two epigraphs, two quotes from, you know, famous people.

1:12.6

The first is from Abraham Lincoln.

1:14.5

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

1:17.8

The second is from Thomas Jefferson.

1:20.1

The greatest good we can do our country is to heal its party divisions and make them one people.

1:24.8

To render us again one people acting as one nation should be the object of every man really a patriot.

1:31.3

People are baffled. Why are Trump and his Republican lick-spittles so intent on gutting our government,

1:37.4

destroying our alliances and reputation around the world, and screwing working-class people while transferring over $50 trillion from them to the morbidly rich.

1:48.5

Historian Kevin M. Cruz captured the zeitgeist brilliantly reflecting widespread public bewilderment

1:55.1

when he posted over on blue sky. Quote, we've had fuck-ups in the White House before, but never a president who seemed

2:02.7

so deliberately intent on being a fuck-up. It's been said before, but if these people were actual

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