How Fascism Works- The Politics of Us and Them- with Prof Jason Stanley, Tim Wise, and a debate with Republican Julio Rivera.
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Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 22 July 2019
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Thom analyses the strategy of Tim Wise, who helped run a campaign against David Duke and defeated him. This is how we need to campaign against Trump, putting his hate, bigotry, misogyny and racism at the center of the campaign. ~~~ Thom debates conservative Julio Rivera who tries to prove that Trump isn't running a racist campaign. ~~~ Professor Jason Stanley, author of 'How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them'. ~~~ And how one florist is helping thousands send Republican congressmen a flowery message.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:15.0 | And happy Monday. |
| 0:17.0 | How you doing today? |
| 0:18.0 | It's a beautiful day here in Portland, Oregon. |
| 0:20.0 | Louise and I had a real nice walk in this morning there is so much in the news |
| 0:25.0 | Donald but I want to start out it's like a tick right like he fastens |
| 0:31.9 | himself on the on our body politic and sucks the blood out. |
| 0:36.0 | I wanted to talk about David Duke, |
| 0:39.5 | a Duke ran for governor of Louisiana. |
| 0:42.2 | And in his first race he won 55% excuse me 60% of the |
| 0:46.2 | white vote when he ran for the US Senate from Louisiana he won 60% of the white |
| 0:51.8 | vote he lost overall because there's a substantial black vote in Louisiana and they they knew who he was |
| 0:57.1 | But he got 60% of the white vote |
| 0:59.4 | So Tim Tim Wise became the assistant director of an anti-David Duke political action committee. |
| 1:08.5 | Back in the day, this was 1991 and 1990. |
| 1:11.5 | He ran for the Senate in 1990 and he ran for the Senate in 1990 and he ran for the |
| 1:13.9 | governorship in 91. And he said when when he ran the 1990 campaign |
| 1:19.7 | against David Duke the Democratic Party consultants who came in said don't talk about |
| 1:25.9 | David Duke being a racist. Everybody knows he's a racist. Instead, talk about, you |
| 1:31.6 | know, issues, right? Talk and talk about the fact that David Duke got out of going to Vietnam and that |
| 1:39.6 | he's been charged by the government with not paying his taxes, right? |
| 1:43.6 | In other words, characterize him as, you know, a bad politician essentially. |
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