RADICAL REPUBLICANS REACH OUT FROM THE GRAVE
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 8 April 2021
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Congress must expel some members and punish states. The 14th Amendment gives us tools that haven’t been used in over a century. Prof. Richard Wolff weighs in on the economics of "De-Growth."
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:15.4 | Hey, let's talk about debt Republicans. |
| 0:18.6 | Have you heard about the radical Republicans? |
| 0:21.4 | They were the faction that basically took over Congress after the Civil War. |
| 0:26.6 | I'll get to that in just a second. |
| 0:28.0 | But what I want to lay out, the headline on my piece over Hartman report, radical Republicans |
| 0:32.3 | reach out from the grave, but Congress must expel some members and punish the states. |
| 0:37.3 | How do you do this? |
| 0:38.3 | It's the 14th Amendment. |
| 0:40.0 | Thaddeus Stevens and Charles Sumner. |
| 0:43.2 | Thaddeus Stevens and the House Charles Sumner and the Senate. |
| 0:46.1 | Stevens had been a Massachusetts lawyer before he came to the House of Representatives. |
| 0:50.6 | He represented Massachusetts in the US House back in 18, in the 1860s. |
| 0:55.0 | And when he was a lawyer in Massachusetts before this, part of his practice was helping people |
| 1:01.0 | who had escaped from the South get legal paperwork in Massachusetts, certifying that they |
| 1:08.8 | were now free citizens of Massachusetts. |
| 1:10.8 | This is what he did for a living or it's what he did on the side, actually, it wasn't |
| 1:14.2 | paid work, but it was a big part of his life. |
| 1:17.2 | And he went into Congress and then Charles Sumner from South Carolina, no, I'm sorry, |
| 1:22.6 | he was not from, Charles Sumner was not from South Carolina. |
| 1:25.3 | He was beaten up by a guy from South Carolina. |
| 1:29.1 | Charles Sumner was beaten up by Preston Brooks in 1856, four years before the Civil War, |
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