TRUMP'S MAXIMUM CHAOS STRATEGY
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 22 July 2020
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Does Trump think that fanning the flames of disaster will help him stay in power? This is a path many other dictators, including Adolf Hitler, have used to destroy Democracy.
Have the conservatives dropped their principles and their concern over 'jack-booted thugs' when the Constitutional rights of left-wingers are being taken? Ken Klippenstein of The Nation magazine joins Thom with his research into who Trump's Gestapo actually are...
And will Trump's racism succeed with hiding his attack on the Constitution while mobilizing his white base?
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:15.0 | Welcome back. |
| 0:18.0 | So, the NRA and the John Birch Society and all these guys, you know I remember when I was like 12. |
| 0:27.0 | My dad took me to a John Birch Society. |
| 0:30.0 | He was a Republican. He was very active with the Republicans. He thought they were nuts. I'm not sure |
| 0:35.8 | he'd been to one of these meetings before. It was hosted by a neighbor of ours, a |
| 0:39.5 | guy who lived down the street. They gave me a copy of John Stormer's book, none dare call it treason, I took it home. the But back then the right wingers at least were saying what we're concerned about is that |
| 0:57.3 | someday the police powers of this country may be used against its own citizens. |
| 1:07.0 | Now of course they thought they were going to be used against them, |
| 1:11.3 | which is at that time, at least where I was, suburban white men by and large, at that John |
| 1:16.4 | Birch Society meeting. |
| 1:18.0 | The NRA has been saying the same thing. |
| 1:19.5 | They've sold millions and millions of guns. |
| 1:21.2 | Look out, the government is going to come for you. Government |
| 1:26.1 | jackbooted thugs in fact are going to come for you. I mean this, but where are they? |
| 1:31.6 | Oh, if the government's going after liberals then that's |
| 1:37.9 | fine. You guys on the right who are concerned about police power, I mean police power is pretty |
| 1:47.5 | awesome power. |
| 1:49.5 | Only the police, only the government basically has the power to take away your freedom, to put you |
| 1:58.6 | in prison, or to take away your life to execute you legally. If I try to confine you, that's called |
| 2:07.8 | kidnapping. If I try to kill you or if I do kill you, that's called murder. |
| 2:11.2 | But when the government does it under color of law |
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