here's my favorite ramp for the day excerpted from our podcast which you can find over at tom arban.com This is the Tom Hartman program.

Greetings my friends, Patriots, lovers of democracy, truth and justice, believers in peace, freedom, and the American way.

Tom Harbin here with you and in my throat and lungs are slowly recovering.

I talked to my doctor yesterday and she says

that I've apparently developed bronchitis

as a result of the viral infection I had before in my lungs.

And so I'm taking my honey lemon garlic and boy does that stuff work.

You take an entire bulb of garlic and crush it into the fresh juice of two

lemons and about three tablespoons of honey and just knocks anything out. But anyhow, I don't

want to totally whack my voice, so I'm going to take the

second and third hour today, Jefferson Smith is going to be in here filling in for me, just

like yesterday. And then hopefully tomorrow I'll be all better.

I have some questions.

The number one I think is will Donald Trump be reelected.

Thomas Frank has an interesting piece suggesting explicitly, and I've said this actually last week, I said I think that if Trump runs for re-election, there's a very good chance he'll get reelected. And Thomas Frank is making that case as well and he's basically making the case as well and he's basically making the case arguing that it won't be so much that

Trump is so great but that the Democratic Party won't step up and reclaim

their talking points. Trump ran on you know these trade deals suck and that

that was you know traditionally the Democratic Party's position and still is the position of progressives in the Democratic Party.

And, you know, there's a few other issues as well.

Health Care for All, Donald Trump said he was going to make sure that everybody was

insured and it would be cheaper than Obamacare and that helped get him elected.

And you know, Democrats need to coalesce around some of these issues so do you think

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