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The Hartmann Report

The GOP’s 60-Year Authoritarian Plot: Perhaps None Dare Call It Treason. But I Do.

The Hartmann Report

Thom Hartmann

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🗓️ 21 December 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Now that Donald Trump is openly calling for fascism in the United States, complete with concentration camps “for millions” including “Democrats” and “the media,” it’s a good time to look at how the GOP became so badly corrupted. Understanding how they got here — and dragged the rest of us with them — may give us some clues to how to get out of this mess.

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This is the Tom Harbin program.

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Hey, hey, let's talk about the GOP's 60 year authoritarian plot.

0:52.1

Perhaps none dare call it treason, but I do.

0:55.6

Now the Donald Trump is openly calling for fascism here in the United States, saying he wants to

1:00.0

build concentration camps for millions of people, which includes Democrats and the media.

1:05.7

I think it's a good time to kind of look back at the Republican Party and ask the question,

1:10.7

how do we get here? How do we end up with a Putin-owned Russia loving fascist,

1:19.2

corrupt businessman billionaire running for president of the United States?

1:24.1

With a chance of winning.

1:26.7

I was 13 years old in 1964 when my dad gave me a copy of John Stormer's book, None Dare Call It

1:32.6

Treason. This was a book that hypothesized that the State Department was filled with communists

1:39.3

and the Goldwater campaign actually had bought over a million copies and mailed them to people.

1:43.1

They mailed one to my dad and he gave it to me after he read it.

1:48.0

And that book in 1964 was kind of the high watermark of the anti-communist movement in the United

1:56.8

States. And it was actually set into place by an earlier book, 1951 by Russell Kirk called

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