Thom Hartmann Program - 1 Hour Edition - 9/18/2018 - The politics of Us versus Them - nationalist and fascist forces at work.
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Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 18 September 2018
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
In Thom's take: As Trump's election all about racism and sexism, and not so much about "Economic Anxieties?" If so, then dp Trump voters mind much if Kavanaugh sexually assaulted someone or if Trump used the n-word? Why are so many despair deaths occurring in Trump-voter counties?
Listeners respond.
Thom reads from "Minority Leader" - by Stacey Abrams and "Taking Bullets" by Haki R. Madhubuti.
And we hear from Professor Jason Stanley, author of "How Fascism Works - The Politics of Us and Them" on whether America really is becoming a nationalist fascist state.
Plus Luke Vargas from Talk Media News, and more good stuff from Thom and his listeners.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:15.0 | Greetings my friends, Patriots, lovers of democracy, |
| 0:21.0 | truth and justice, believers in peace, freedom, and the American way. |
| 0:26.7 | As the GOP plows ahead with another round of budget exploding tax cuts for the rich. |
| 0:33.3 | Yep, talking about this right now, let's add another half a trillion dollars |
| 0:37.9 | to the budget deficit. |
| 0:39.8 | We've got to make it really big, right? We've got to give as much government money away to the |
| 0:45.3 | billionaire class as we possibly can so that A they can recycle it back to us in |
| 0:50.5 | the form of campaign contributions and B we can use this as an excuse to cut |
| 0:56.2 | Social Security and Medicare. This is now confirmed. Larry Kudlow said on Monday |
| 1:01.6 | that the White House will push for cuts to life-saving |
| 1:04.7 | safety net programs like Medicare and Social Security if the Republicans retain |
| 1:09.8 | control of Congress said, |
| 1:14.0 | believe them when they say they're coming after Medicaid and Social |
| 1:17.6 | Security. This election is the last chance to stop them. |
| 1:21.2 | When asked if Social Security and Medicare would be targeted for |
| 1:24.6 | reform, Kudlow said everyone will look at that. Probably next year. Right. |
| 1:30.9 | This is the two Santa Claus theory that Jude Winoosky laid out four Republicans |
| 1:36.2 | back in the 70s that Ronald Reagan made basically the official core of his form of governments, which is when a Republican is in office, behave |
| 1:44.9 | like Santa Claus, spend money like a drunken sailor, borrow and spend as much |
| 1:48.9 | money as you possibly can. Number one, all that spending will juice the economy. And number two, all that |
| 1:54.6 | borrowing will give you something to scream about when a Democrat comes into |
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