This is the Tom Hartman program.

Creetings my friends, patriots, lovers of democracy, truth and justice,

believers in peace, freedom, and the American way.

Back here in Portland, we had a great trip to Chicago.

A lot going on in the world and in the news.

The whole Roy Moore thing in a way

really highlights in my mind

how committed the Republicans are to sucking up to the very very

wealthy base that is the not just you know i've been referring to the for a long time as the

owners of the republican party

but they're also the ones to keep the republican party in power they're also the

supporters of the Republican Party.

The real constituency for the Republican Party is E.J. Dion writes in today's Washington Post,

the headline,

Trump's real constituency isn't the white working class at all.

And then he says his rise depended on support from rich conservatives.

And it did, particularly Robert Mercer and his daughter

Rebecca, and their company, Cambridge Analytica, and other billionaires. And his program serves the interests of those who have accumulated enormous

wealth. The part about the billionaires was my parenthetic comment in there

This explains writes E.J. Dion Jr.

Why so few congressional Republicans denounce him

No matter how close he edges toward autocracy, panders to Putin, sucks up to Duterte, loves Erdogan,

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