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This is the Tom Hartman program.

And welcome back, we've got a new German government, and I just wanted to point out

that this new German government, at least finally they're referring to it as a center-left government.

This is the New York Times, for the first time in 16 years, Germany will have a center-left

government and a new chancellor, Olaf Schultz, a social Democrat.

They've created a coalition with the Greens and with the free Democrats who are sort of like,

you know, the, they're sort of like the problem solvers caucus in the Democratic,

which spans both the Democratic or Republican parties, but basically the free Democrats are the

ones who believe in neoliberalism. They're the leftover neoliberals. Now, but they're sort of

progressive, but we'll get to that. We've got a lot on our program today. We've got conversations

with the great minds of David Pepper is going to be with us. He wrote a new book called

Laboratories of Autocracy. And it's about basically what's happening in our state houses.

If you think that Washington DC is a mess, you ain't seen nothing yet, and you need to know about

this. The average American can't identify who their state senator is or their state representative

is, and that is working tremendously to the advantage of the autocrats in this country,

or the wannabe autocrats, the, the oligarchs. We'll get to that. But what's amazing is that

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