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This is the Tom Hartman program.

Hey greetings my friends, patriots, lovers of democracy, truth and justice, believers in peace,

freedom and the American way, it's a whole brand new year.

And on this day in 1925, Benito Mussolini declared himself the dictator of Italy, El Duce,

or El Duce, Duce, I don't know how do you say it, I don't speak Italian, but anyhow,

he was the supreme leader. Kevin McCarthy aspires to the same in a weird twist.

There are some Republicans who are talking about, well, you know, when Hakeem Jeffries is put

up for the leader of the Democrats, maybe we'll just vote with him and make him speaker of the

House and then we'll have somebody we can fight with for the next two years because say, hey,

we're Republicans, we don't actually have any policy proposals.

It's absolutely crazy, we've got a lot to talk about today.

When will Republican voters wake up to their own oppression?

I want to get into that, that's my op-ed for today over at harbeterreport.com.

Well, Kevin McCarthy's a disastrous day cause a blue wave for the Democratic Party or,

does he have the courage and the strength and the, well, I'll get into that in just a minute.

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