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Thom Hartmann Program - 1 Hour Edition - 10/23/2018 - Trump the Nationalist? Is voter suppression and Republican turn-out leading us to a fascist take-over of democracy?

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Thom Hartmann

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🗓️ 23 October 2018

⏱️ 60 minutes

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0:00.0

This is the Tom Hartman program.

0:15.0

Greetings by friends, patriots, lovers of democracy, truth and justice,

0:21.0

believers in peace, freedom, and the American way. Boy, peace, freedom, and the American way. Boy

0:23.4

peace freedom and the American way are getting kind of thin these days.

0:27.8

Donald Trump last night said he was a nationalist. Now if that means I support my country before I support globalism which is how Trump

0:36.2

characterized it I think probably most of us are quote nationalists end quote

0:41.0

but that's typically not the meaning of that word. Typically

0:45.4

the meaning of the word nationalist means militarist. Somebody who's willing

0:50.3

to engage in expansionistic military policies and

0:53.9

suppress the rights of people and things like that.

0:56.2

But he embraced that last night and uh... this morning uh... there was a bomb in

1:00.0

George Soros's mailbox George Soros who has absolutely nothing to do with the migrant caravan

1:05.6

coming up from Honduras through Guatemala and now through Mexico. But boy is this

1:09.4

thing a gift to Donald Trump and the thing that concerns me the most is this report in

1:16.2

the Hill by Justin Wise that in seven out of eight early voting states. They're looking at Arizona, Florida,

1:25.1

Georgia, Indiana, Montana, Tennessee, and Texas. In every state except Nevada,

1:29.4

yes, they have overwhelming early voting turnouts, but in every state except Nevada, the overwhelming part of that is Republicans turning out.

1:39.0

Trump is succeeding in turning out his base.

1:42.0

And Fox News is succeeding in turning out his base. And Fox News is succeeding in turning out the Fox News viewers.

1:50.1

And these people standing in long, long lines and we're all looking at it going,

1:53.1

holy cow.

1:58.1

We thought they were Democrats?

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