This is the Tom Hartman program.

And greetings, my friends, patriots, lovers of democracy, truth and justice, believers

in peace, freedom, and the American way Tom Hartman here with you.

I'm going to end just a few minutes get into this bizarre new ruling about, by the Senate

parliamentarian, basically crippling the Democrats in the Senate.

So we're getting to that in just a minute.

But my campaign rant for the day is the piece that I posted a Harbin report dot com.

The grand dragon of today's Cluclux caucus, that would be Donald Trump.

But the point is that the Democratic Party needs to start dealing with the Republican

Party, not as a legitimate political party.

This is the problem.

I mean, you see like, you know, cinema and mansion hanging out with Republicans going,

oh, yeah, we're all cool here.

No, I'm sorry, the Republican Party is no longer a real conventional political party.

And there's this, I, a week or two ago, shared with you this extraordinary study out

of Europe, comparing the Republican Party with the whole variety with several hundred.

I think it was over 300 different political parties across Europe.

And you know, because most European countries have parliamentary systems and proportional

representation in parliament, they have multiple parties, unlike the United States where we

basically have two parties.

So they looked at, you know, several hundred political parties and compared them to the

Republican Party and they, the conclusion they came to was that the Republican Party

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