The Fascist Grip Tightens
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 29 August 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Once a strongman takes power it's very difficult to dislodge them from ruling a country. As our institutions gradually succumb to Trump's grip, can American Democracy survive?
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| 1:16.7 | Welcome to the chilling stage of tyranny where the tyrant titans his grip. This is what's happening right now. |
| 1:23.2 | Trump is now raiding homes and launching investigations into political insiders who publicly |
| 1:28.2 | criticize him. Other former Trump administration officials are clamming up. We've entered the |
| 1:34.0 | phase of this transition to fascism where objections to his actions are chilled. |
| 1:40.9 | Remember Jade Helm in 2015? |
| 1:46.9 | If you're not a right winger, you probably don't. |
| 1:54.2 | I mean, you know, we talked about it briefly on this program back in 2015, but the Obama administration was running this. |
| 2:00.1 | It was called a Joint Realistic Military Training Operation, an RMT, realistic military training. |
| 2:03.7 | And it was by a bunch of elite forces, the Green Berets, the Navy SEALs, the Air Force Special Ops, the Marine Corps forces, 82nd Airborne, |
| 2:09.3 | and some interagency partners. And it was in seven states, Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, |
| 2:14.6 | and Colorado. Primarily, it was run out of Elgin Air Force Base in Florida. |
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