THE MOST TOXIC GOP MEME EVER?
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 12 January 2022
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Once citizens believe a nation is "a republic but not a democracy", then it’s easier for a strongman to limit majority-rule voting so “only the right people” get to vote-- or have their vote counted.
But can Biden and the Democrats prevent Republicans from rigging the game?
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| 0:42.6 | This is the Tom Harbin Program. |
| 0:46.2 | It's the Tom Harbin Program. We get a lot to talk about today. |
| 0:49.8 | First of all, I want to start out with exposing what I think is probably the single most toxic |
| 0:55.3 | and corrosive meme to come out of the Republican Party. |
| 0:59.0 | It started in the 1950s, and I'll share the details of that. |
| 1:03.6 | Basically, it's that one citizens believe that a nation is a republic, but not a democracy. |
| 1:10.0 | It suddenly gets easier for strong men to limit majority rule boating, |
| 1:14.4 | so that only the right people can vote. |
| 1:17.7 | I don't know if you caught President Biden's speech yesterday, Louise and I did. |
| 1:21.7 | We were actually driving when we heard it. |
| 1:24.8 | The speech I thought was brilliant. |
| 1:26.7 | He said exactly what needed to be said, and if you missed this speech, |
| 1:29.9 | it's worth going to YouTube or WhiteHouse.gov or wherever, you know, and just watching it. |
| 1:34.6 | It wasn't particularly long. |
| 1:36.6 | But what astonished me was we were listening to CNN in the car on Sirius XM |
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