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The Hartmann Report

Daily Take: Where the Hell Are the Democratic Warriors Ready to Take the Fight to Trump’s Fascism & the GOP Machine?

The Hartmann Report

Thom Hartmann

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

4.41.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

As the old guard fades and democracy is under siege, the next generation of leaders is missing in action: who will step up and fight?


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Where are the next democratic warriors ready to take the fight to Trump's fascism and the GOP machine.

0:39.6

Monday morning, MSNBC and CNN and presumably Fox, etc. gave Trump roughly 40 minutes of

0:45.7

live television time to rant and lie, threaten an Iowa newspaper and pollster, proposed

0:50.9

privatizing our post office, and muse about ending school children's vaccine

0:55.6

mandates for polio. Everybody watching cable TV probably saw it. It was later the topic of

1:01.6

numerous newscasts and newspaper articles that are still echoing across the news space.

1:07.4

Around the same time, President Joe Biden spoke at the inauguration of the Francis Perkins National

1:11.8

Monument to FDR's famous Labor Secretary and the principal author of the New Deal.

1:17.0

He truthfully pointed out that his one four-year administration had helped create 16 million new jobs in four years,

1:23.8

more than any single presidential term in history, and more than the jobs created by Bush,

1:28.8

Bush, Jr., and the Trump administrations combined.

1:33.1

The cable networks chose to completely ignore Biden's speech, as did the rest of the nation's media.

1:38.5

So I get it.

1:39.7

There's a strong media bias in favor of Trump.

1:42.3

You know, what new outrageous thing will he say? Oh my God,

1:45.2

clickbait! And generally against Democrats. That doesn't mean, though, that elected Democrats should

1:51.4

run and hide. Americans across the country are terrified, particularly in red states where

1:55.9

women are bleeding out, while the morbidly rich and religious fanatics are licking their chops.

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