The Difference Between a Movement and a Moment
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 23 December 2023
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Will a real democracy movement emerge to take on the growing forces of fascism? Are progressives capable of the required sacrifice?
Plus - Thom read from "The Tribalization of Politics: How Rush Limbaugh's Race-Baiting Rhetoric on the Obama Presidency Paved the Way for Trump" by Ian Reifowitz.
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| 0:48.2 | A lot to talk about today. |
| 0:50.0 | Plus your calls, of course, but to start out, my daily take over at HartmanReport.com, |
| 0:55.3 | I rant for the day as it were. |
| 0:57.0 | Is that will a democracy movement emerge to take on the growing forces of fascism? |
| 1:02.8 | And here's the essence of what I'm writing about. |
| 1:04.9 | And that is that movements and political parties have very different things. |
| 1:08.8 | Political parties are about the day-to-day operation, about raising money, |
| 1:12.8 | about fielding candidates, about exciting rules. |
| 1:15.6 | Just the normal one-day and stuff. |
| 1:17.2 | It's not to say that they're bad or good. |
| 1:18.9 | I mean, you know, they're kind of a necessary evil if they're even if you want to call them an evil, |
| 1:23.8 | but there you are. |
| 1:24.4 | That's what political parties do. |
| 1:26.7 | Movements, on the other hand, |
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