THE RISE AND FALL OF AMERICAN DEMOCRACY?
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 4 June 2020
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
America has arrived at a crisis-point. As Trump surrounds the White House with unmarked federal prison guards loyal to him, directly attacks the constitutional right to peacefully assemble, and is urging Republican governors to use violence against protesters- Senate Republicans say nothing. But some on the right- like former Trump cabinet member General Mathis- are loudly denouncing Trump's unconstitutional acts.
And with unusual detail, economist Richard Wolff compares our situation to Hitler's Germany from an economic perspective. Will Trump be able to exploit economic crisis much like Hitler and other strongmen have done before?
Jeff Charlotte also joins Thom, author of six books and producer of Netflix series 'The Family', about a Republican cabal that operates behind the scenes in Washington with a bizarre interpretation of Christianity. And as fascism with a supposedly Christian face rises in America, he brings a warning against comparing ourselves to past bad events of other countries too closely.
And David Daly of FairVote.org looks at ongoing Republican gerrymandering of the states. What can we do about it?
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:15.0 | Greetings my friends, patriots, lovers of democracy, truth and justice, believers and peace, freedom in the American way. |
| 0:25.6 | Is Donald Trump going to stop us from voting in November or is he going to mess with the vote? |
| 0:31.2 | As you know, I've been saying for some time I think that I |
| 0:33.7 | personally believe that their strategy is to use the 12th Amendment which |
| 0:37.5 | says that if enough states can't certify their vote as being legitimate, their Electoral College vote, then the |
| 0:46.4 | Electoral College vote is set aside and the House of Representatives decides |
| 0:51.0 | who's president, each state having one vote. |
| 0:55.0 | And the people in the states who decide the vote |
| 0:59.0 | are the members of the combined Senate and House or Assembly or whatever they may call it. |
| 1:03.7 | And I think that there are 33 or 34 states that are Republican controlled, |
| 1:07.3 | which means that Donald Trump gets reelected. |
| 1:09.8 | I've got to write another op-ed about this. |
| 1:11.7 | It's just so clear to me that this is the direction they're moving. |
| 1:14.4 | But today is the anniversary of the 1989 crushing of democracy |
| 1:21.8 | and dissent in Tiananmen Square in China. |
| 1:25.0 | And right now we're seeing in Hong Kong |
| 1:29.0 | where this year, for the very first time, |
| 1:32.0 | protests have been outlawed or demonstrations |
| 1:35.0 | you know whatever you want to call that in solidarity with those folks have |
| 1:39.8 | been outlawed but protesters are doing it anyway. |
| 1:44.6 | This anniversary is happening in the midst of a week in which the President of the United States |
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