DANGEROUS CONSPIRACY THEORIES EXPOSED
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 10 October 2020
⏱️ 59 minutes
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From the Turner Diaries, to Camp of the Saints, and now to Qanon! Thom Hartmann exposes the dangerous history of Republican conspiracy theories! Professor Jason Stanley, author of How Fascism Works joins Thom to analyze Trump's corrosive effect on US democracy.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:17.5 | So the Detroit News is publishing the story that this plot put together by these right-wing |
| 0:25.3 | militia cranks in Michigan was planning on kidnapping Governor Whitmer and taking over |
| 0:38.1 | the government of Michigan or something like that. |
| 0:40.4 | I mean, it's very bizarre and yet it's not. |
| 0:48.0 | And I'm wondering, to what extent this ties back to Donald Trump's April 17th tweet, |
| 0:54.6 | liberate Michigan? |
| 0:56.9 | Remember that? |
| 0:59.3 | Liberate Michigan. |
| 1:02.8 | And we all know the militias and the Nazis and the racist follow-down Trump obsessively, |
| 1:10.6 | compulsively. |
| 1:14.0 | And here we are. |
| 1:20.2 | This is a cancer in the United States. |
| 1:22.7 | This is a cancer that we have had in this country for a long, long time. |
| 1:28.7 | Domestic terrorism that is fundamentally based in racism and, well, to some extent, even |
| 1:40.7 | sexism, misogyny, but in particular, on racism. |
| 1:46.2 | We had the clan back in the 19th century and through the 20th century. |
| 1:53.0 | And now we've got, you know, the clan has been reinvented under a variety of names as these |
| 1:58.7 | right-wing militia groups. |
| 2:03.1 | And the idea is, you know, as Mike Lee said, we're not a democracy. |
| 2:08.8 | We're a republic. |
| 2:09.8 | You know, we're run by a small group of people. |
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