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The Hartmann Report

THE GOP IS AT A CROSSROADS AND THEIR CRISIS THREATENS THE AMERICAN EXPERIMENT

The Hartmann Report

Thom Hartmann

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🗓️ 5 February 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Why the Marjorie Taylor Greene fiasco determines much of the fate and future of American Republicanism. The GOP is at a crossroads & their crisis threatens the American experiment.

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0:00.0

This is the Tom Hartman program.

0:17.5

And greetings my friends, patriots, lovers of democracy, truth and justice, believers and

0:22.3

peace, freedom and the American way Tom Hartman here with the Broadcasting live from shelter

0:27.6

in place, my home office in Portland.

0:31.0

So Marjorie Taylor Greene and what she has to do with the fate and future of America.

0:35.6

You know, I started this article out over at Tom Hartman.medium.com with a poster from

0:41.7

1956 from the Republican Party that was actually Young Republicans Club and it was on Labor

0:48.6

Day.

0:49.6

And it's titled Young Republicans Salute Labor, America's free working men and women

0:54.7

produce more and consume more than any other nation.

0:57.4

Greatest prosperity in history without war, over 66 million employed, highest take home

1:02.3

pay in history, greater job security, less time lost because of strikes, increased union

1:07.6

membership, best working conditions in history, social security expanded.

1:13.0

And then at the very bottom it has two kind of headline called actions, attend your union

1:18.2

meetings, exclamation mark, register and vote Republican.

1:22.3

That was 1956.

1:24.6

Those Republicans refer to themselves as the, as the cloth coat Republicans, right?

1:30.1

As Richard Nixon used that phrase when he lost the election to Jack Kennedy in one of his

1:34.8

speeches.

1:35.8

You know, you're not going to have a tricky dick to kick around.

1:40.2

I believe it was all in that same speech.

1:42.6

But when Nixon took over the GOP in 1968, he had decided, he had concluded that the unions

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