Trump's re-election campaign to appeal to his base becomes obvious as he threatens to deport 'millions', doubles down on American concentration camps, and tries to provoke a war with Iran. So why do some Democrats think they can win by appealing to the 3% of swing voters from 'the middle'?
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Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 18 June 2019
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Professor of politics and middle east expert Dr. Trita Parsi joins Thom to consider the possibility that Trump has faked attacks on oil tankers to provoke and justify war with Iran. ~~~ Thom reads from 'State of Confusion: Political Manipulation and the Assualt on the American Mind' by Dr. Bryant Welch. ~~~ Thom compares 'swing campaigns' where candidates reach out to 'the middle' against 'base campaigns' where politicians appeal to their base. Trump is talking about deporting millions of hispanics and going to war with Iran- clearly a base campaign. Why do some Democrats think appealing to the middle will win even though this strategy hasn't worked? ~~~ OAC is challenging Trump's American concentration camps as an obvious- and evil- appeal to his base. Mark in San Diego doesn't think Biden can win as a middle-of-the-road candidate against Trump's base strategy. ~~~ Thom reads from 'How Wealth Rules the World' by Ben G. Price. ~~~ Why did the imprisoned former president of Egypt die in a courtroom? Thom checks in with Talk Media News' Luke Vargas on what we know. ~~~ Jasper in Louisiana asks Thom why he won't run for office himself?
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:15.0 | And greetings my friends, Patriots, lovers of democracy, |
| 0:21.0 | truth and justice, believers in peace, freedom, and the American way |
| 0:24.9 | Tom Hartman here with you. And I want to start out the program today with Dr. |
| 0:29.6 | Treia Parsi, the professor of Georgetown University, author most recently of losing an |
| 0:33.8 | enemy Obama Iran and the triumph of diplomacy is website treat a |
| 0:38.5 | Parsi dot com and you can tweet him at t-Parsi |
| 0:41.6 | dr parsi welcome back to the program. |
| 0:44.1 | Thank you so much for having me. |
| 0:45.4 | It's always great talking with you. |
| 0:46.6 | I always learned something from you. |
| 0:48.1 | I'm curious, your take on the current state. |
| 0:51.3 | The US government is arguing that they've got video of an Iranian |
| 0:54.9 | Army boat or Navy boat coming up to one of these tankers and removing a mine from |
| 1:01.0 | the side of it. The owner of the tanker is saying no it wasn't a |
| 1:03.8 | mine that hit us. We've got Seymour Hershey. I'm going to play that clip after |
| 1:07.8 | we talk where Seymour Hershey was talking sometime back about how he had reported for I believe it was for the New York |
| 1:14.4 | Times that Dick Cheney in a meeting had suggested that the US Army build a couple of |
| 1:19.4 | these boats that look identical to these Iranian boats and use them to provoke an incident in the Gulf to have a war |
| 1:24.8 | with Iran. |
| 1:25.8 | This is getting bizarre. |
| 1:27.6 | What's solid, what isn't, what do we know, what do we not know? |
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