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This is the Tom Hartman program.

What do we have a pile of stuff to get through today?

First here, I want to get into how Donald Trump and the Taliban and frankly the entire

Republican Party are all choosing basically to go down the same authoritarian path.

What could possibly go wrong? We'll get to that in a moment.

Also, why are so many Republicans been out of shape about school masks?

You know, that's your infringing freedom if you have to wear a mask,

but they're out there selling bulletproof backpacks so the kids are safe from school shootings.

That's not an infringement on their freedom.

Jake Johnson is going to drop by talking about what's going on in Haiti and they don't

need another president chosen in secret. This is, I mean, there are, Haiti is like

disaster upon disaster. We'll get to that for our program today.

So that's like in a nutshell what we're going to get into today.

I want to start out with this question, is there an analogy, a meaningful analogy

between the Republican, the modern Republican worldview and the Taliban worldview?

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