FEAR IS THE POINT FOR THE GOP
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
4.3 • 8 Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2022
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
the racist politics that flow from it are poison in the bloodstream of our republic. Bishop William J. Barber, II joins Thom on the Voting Rights Mobilization Tour just kicked off (2/14) and will culminate in DC on 6/18.
A former GOP operative says, The fear is the point," in the Florida republican's "don't say gay bill."
The GOP law is responsible as almost 40% of mail-in ballots being rejected in the Houston area.
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| 0:27.8 | This is the Tom Harbin program. And greetings my friends, patriots, lovers of democracy, |
| 0:50.5 | truth and justice, believers and peace, freedom in the American way. Did you know that 40% of |
| 0:55.6 | ballots are being rejected and used in? There's actually a story within that story. I'll be |
| 0:59.6 | sharing that with you, but I wanted to give you the lineup for the day. Also, Bishop William |
| 1:03.7 | Barber is going to be with us. He's the pastor of the Greenleaf Christian Church, |
| 1:08.5 | Senior Lecturer of the Repairs of the Breach, Architect of the Forward Together Moral Movement, |
| 1:13.9 | and we'll be talking with him about that. And also, I want to get into fear is the point, |
| 1:19.2 | the new GOP strategy. We'll talk about that in a minute too, but I want to start out with the |
| 1:24.1 | rant that I posted this morning over at HartmanReport.com, which is by the way free and no ads. |
| 1:31.6 | The headline is, all the GOP has left is racism, and that's a lie too. And in the 2020 election, |
| 1:40.9 | you know, the Republican, this last election, right? The Republicans didn't even publish a party |
| 1:45.0 | platform. Mitch McConnell gave a speech to a group of fundraisers of, you know, fat Republican |
| 1:50.8 | fat cats. There was a reporter there from Axios who said that McConnell said, you know, |
| 1:57.3 | one of the donors asked him, what are you going to run on? We know what you're opposed to, |
| 2:01.6 | what are you going to run on? What is the positive message that Republicans are bringing |
| 2:05.0 | Americans this year? And McConnell replied, Republicans should be 100% focused on Democrats, |
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