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This is the Tom Hartman program.

Well, rabbits, rabbits, rabbits, and happy lunar new year.

It's also black history a month. I'm going to talk about how right wingers are already pre-twisting that.

Also, Donald Trump pulls a stolen and seizing our voting machines.

I want to get into how the moral panic of critical race theory has morphed into a book banning, frenzy,

and why a disparate group of billionaires, Republican politicians, televangelists, media outlets,

and white supremacist militias have found common cause around a new and exciting moral panic.

And also, I want to get into Trump's offer of pardons.

Was this an attempt to basically bribe the January 6th traders to keep their mouths shut?

Hey, don't tell you what's going on.

Well, we'll get into that. The GOP in Georgia is executing Donald Trump's playbook to end

democracy in America right now. And we've got geeky science. Same-sex penguins are succeeding as

foster parents in the New York zoo. I'll tell you all about that. So, to just kick it off here,

the title for my op-ed today over at HartmanReport.com is how the moral panic of critical

race theory morphed into a book banning frenzy.

Some people are familiar with the concept of a moral panic. You know, a moral panic is like

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