THE REPUBLICAN ALL-OUT ASSAULT ON THE VERY IDEA OF DEMOCRACY
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Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 26 April 2021
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Republicans in red states are going authoritarian & ditching democracy. In state after state they are loading cannons as you’re reading this, and the very concept of democracy is the target. Will their scheme be completed by 2024?
And Senator Maise Hirono joins Thom with the wisdom of her experience- and thoughts on the divisiveness between Republicans and Democrats today.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:16.2 | On the line with us, the Senator Maisie Herono, the U.S. Senator from Hawaii, the Democrat |
| 0:20.7 | from Hawaii, HeronoHARONO.0.0.gov is the website, and the Twitter handle is Maisie, M-A-Z-I-E, |
| 0:29.0 | the Senator Herono, welcome to the program. It's so nice to have you with us. I spent the weekend |
| 0:34.5 | with your book Heart of Fire, an immigrant daughter's story, and it is extraordinary. You have written |
| 0:40.9 | a masterpiece. Oh my gosh Tom, that is high praise coming from you. Thank you so much. |
| 0:47.3 | Good to be with you. Thank you. It is a pleasure and honor to have you with us. I had no idea |
| 0:53.4 | about your background. We could talk so long about so many things, but first of all, just |
| 0:58.0 | as an immigrant, story of your brother and your mother and the trouble father and everything, |
| 1:03.4 | all of this stuff, and as an Asian immigrant, for that matter, what are your thoughts right now |
| 1:09.3 | on the crisis that seems to be befalling the Asian community in the United States in terms of |
| 1:16.4 | hate crimes that seem to be provoked by Donald Trump's promoting racist stereotypes and language |
| 1:23.3 | around the coronavirus? Well, we've all seen the rise in hate crimes, totally unprovoked hate crimes |
| 1:29.5 | against Asian Americans, and most recently I just saw a clip of a person in New York having his |
| 1:35.9 | heads stomped on. This is terrible. Racism, racism is never far below the surface in our country, |
| 1:43.3 | and Asian American Pacific Islanders are the perpetual outsiders and the other perpetual foreigners. |
| 1:51.7 | Every once in a while, we would have things like the Chinese Exclusion Act, the internment of |
| 1:58.4 | 120,000 Japanese Americans, or World War II, the Muslim ban, it comes up. Yes, we have the racism |
| 2:08.3 | against blacks that we have never dealt with and faced up to in our country. Racism is never far |
| 2:15.1 | below the surface, but with regard to the API community, we have seen a huge increase in unprovoked |
| 2:22.0 | attacks, and I would say that that's connected to dots. When you have a Trump saying that this is a |
| 2:30.1 | China virus, his administration calling it the Kung Fu, you've created an environment and atmosphere |
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