IS AMERICA WITNESSING THE COLLAPSE OF THE GOP?
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Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 12 August 2020
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
History and the intrinsic goodness of human nature have moved beyond the Republican Party’s century-long opposition to working people, voting rights and a strong social safety net.
On the one hand, if the Republican Party doesn’t reinvent itself it will go the way of the Whigs. On the other hand, it appears the best the party has to offer for the future are billionaire Mitt Romney or fascist Tom Cotton.
America, broadly, is rejecting the poisons of racism, sexism, selfishness and greed. So long as the Republican Party continues to cling to these fundamentally anti-American values, it will continue to collapse.
Thom speaks with Charlie Sykes, founder and editor-at-large of The Bulwark, host of The Bulwark Podcast, and an NBC/ MSNBC contributor.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman Program. |
| 0:15.0 | So back four years ago in 2016, Charlie Sykes, after 25 years as a conservative radio talk show host stepped down from that |
| 0:26.0 | gig. He's also a well respected and well published author. He's the author of nine books, |
| 0:31.4 | a nation of of Victims dumbing |
| 0:33.4 | down our kids, The Hollow Men, The End of Privacy, |
| 0:35.8 | A Nation of Moochers. |
| 0:37.1 | Most recently, how the Wright lost its mind, |
| 0:40.1 | which came out right after 2016, in 2017. But in in 2016 he wrote a piece for the New York |
| 0:44.8 | Times titled where the right went wrong which I thought was absolutely |
| 0:49.6 | fascinating he talks about conservatives actually believed things about free trade balance budgets, |
| 0:54.1 | character and respect for constitutional rights. |
| 0:57.1 | I have been wanting for some time to have a thoughtful conversation with a Republican |
| 1:02.3 | or former Republican about how the Republican Party can go forward. |
| 1:05.0 | And I'm very happy that Charlie is with us today. |
| 1:08.0 | He's the founder and editor at large of the Bulwork, THE, the Bulwork.com, is the website,. t.e the work dot com is the website a news site |
| 1:15.6 | Charlie welcome to the program and thanks for joining us |
| 1:18.6 | we with first of all are you still a Republican |
| 1:21.2 | no |
| 1:22.4 | nobody that i don't know what it means other than being part of the Trump |
| 1:25.2 | cult and I'm definitely not part of the Trump cult. Yeah, I know I get that. I grew up in a Republican |
| 1:31.3 | household. My dad was a solid member of the Republican Party. I went |
| 1:34.8 | door to door with my dad in 1964. I was 13 years old to campaign for Barry Goldwater. |
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