Daily Take: Welcome to MAGAstan: Trump’s GOP is Building an American Taliban of Racism & Authoritarianism
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Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 20 August 2025
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Loyalty oaths, banned history, forced obedience: the right isn’t hiding anymore. They’re telling us exactly what kind of dictatorship they want…
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| 1:02.0 | Welcome to Magistan. |
| 1:04.3 | Trump's GOP is building an American Taliban of racism and authoritarianism. |
| 1:16.2 | In his novel 1984, George Orwell warned, those who control the present control the past and those who control the past control the future. Today, Trump and the |
| 1:21.8 | GOP have weaponized that prophecy, twisting it into the foundation of their crusade to make America white again. |
| 1:29.5 | What they are building is not a political movement, but a parallel nation, a Maga Stan, |
| 1:35.3 | where loyalty oaths replace truth, history is scrubbed clean of slavery and racism, |
| 1:40.4 | and authoritarian obedience is demanded in the name of patriotism. |
| 1:44.8 | This is America's homegrown Taliban, and they're no longer pretending to hide their intentions. |
| 1:50.5 | When the Oklahoma Department of Education rolled out its new America-first MAGA certification exam for teachers, |
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