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Progressive political commentator, #ThomHartman 1) should have named his excellent summary piece,
The Dark Side of Politics: The GOP's MAGA Lie Machine, #TheStateOfTheUnion instead.And what a sad state it is, indeed.
Never since the end of the #CivilWar has #US #democracy been so embattled.
Never since WWII and the downfall of the #fascist, #DeutschesReich controlled #AmericaFirst Party has the truth fallen victim to such...https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/inside-the-gop-s-maga-lie-machine/
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Progressive political commentator, #ThomHartman 1) should have named his excellent summary piece,
The Dark Side of Politics: The GOP's MAGA Lie Machine, #TheStateOfTheUnion instead.And what a sad state it is, indeed.
Never since the end of the #CivilWar has #US #democracy been so embattled.
Never since WWII and the downfall of the #fascist, #DeutschesReich controlled #AmericaFirst Party has the truth fallen victim to such...https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/inside-the-gop-s-maga-lie-machine/
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Progressive political commentator, #ThomHartman 1) should have named his excellent summary piece,
The Dark Side of Politics: The GOP's MAGA Lie Machine, #TheStateOfTheUnion instead.And what a sad state it is, indeed.
Never since the end of the #CivilWar has #US #democracy been so embattled.
Never since WWII and the downfall of the #fascist, #DeutschesReich controlled #AmericaFirst Party has the truth fallen victim to such...https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/inside-the-gop-s-maga-lie-machine/
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Progressive political commentator, #ThomHartman 1) should have named his excellent summary piece,
The Dark Side of Politics: The GOP's MAGA Lie Machine, #TheStateOfTheUnion instead.And what a sad state it is, indeed.
Never since the end of the #CivilWar has #US #democracy been so embattled.
Never since WWII and the downfall of the #fascist, #DeutschesReich controlled #AmericaFirst Party has the truth fallen victim to such...https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/inside-the-gop-s-maga-lie-machine/
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Progressive political commentator, #ThomHartman 1) should have named his excellent summary piece,
The Dark Side of Politics: The GOP's MAGA Lie Machine, #TheStateOfTheUnion instead.And what a sad state it is, indeed.
Never since the end of the #CivilWar has #US #democracy been so embattled.
Never since WWII and the downfall of the #fascist, #DeutschesReich controlled #AmericaFirst Party has the truth fallen victim to such...https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/inside-the-gop-s-maga-lie-machine/
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CW: Part 3: This Is the Dying Phase of Reaganism—and It's Hideous
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Opinion | This Is the Dying Phase of Reaganism—and It's Hideous | Thom Hartmann https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/12/18/dying-phase-reaganism-and-its-hideous#NeoLiberalism
#Reaganism
#GOPInBedWithRich
#WantTheirSerfsBack"...As the GOP’s game of shilling for corporations and the morbidly rich became obvious, support for the party slipped. Needing more votes to gain and hold political office, Republicans reached out to bigots, racists, misogynists, antisemites, and open fascists. Each slice of that poison pie gave them a few percent more votes.
When working class white men realized they’d been screwed by 40 years of Reaganism, they were unsure where to focus their rage.
Republican politicians and right-wing media were happy to supply the villains: women in the workplace when they should be home barefoot and pregnant; racial minorities who “want your job” or to “rape your daughter”; and queer people who are “after your children.”
Reagan kicked off his 1980 campaign for president with a speech to an all-white audience near Philadelphia, Mississippi, where three Civil Rights activists were brutally murdered. His topic was “state’s rights.”
Bush the Elder rolled out his Willy Horton ad and George the younger lied us into two wars with Muslim nations.
Finally, like an evil Santa, Trump dumped out his bag of malice, malevolence, and odium. He embraced the world’s worst despots, seeing them as role models for a future America, while trashing our allies and disparaging democracy. He applauded police violence and ridiculed its victims.
Demagogues like DeSantis and Abbott further raised the temperature by accusing career public school teachers of promoting “Critical Race Theory” and librarians of hustling perversion and porn.
They used desperate refugees as human pawns in their vicious game. They purged millions of mostly Black, Hispanic, and young voters from the rolls, a process endorsed by five corrupt Republicans on the Supreme Court in 2018.
Our most recent Republican President of the United States is hawking NFT art and facing decades in prison in multiple state and federal venues for his crimes while in office.
Now, at the end of these forty-one short years of this unrelenting barrage of corruption and hate promoted by Republican media and politicians, we’ve arrived at the end stage of Reaganism. As a result, our nation stands upon a precipice:
Will we continue down Reagan’s path that I charted in my book on neoliberalism and end up, as did Russia and Hungary, with neofascist strongman rule and a total collapse of the American experiment?
Or will we turn back to the lessons of the New Deal and Great Society, embraced by presidents and politicians of both parties for a half-century, and rebuild our middle class and our democracy, along with our trust in each other?
For most of the past 41 years the choice has not been as clear to as many people as it is today. Now that America can no long plead uncertainty, we must seize hold of the awesome responsibility for rescuing our nation and her democracy from the extraordinary damage of Reagan’s neoliberalism.
For ourselves, our nation, our children and grandchildren, and the larger world."
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CW: Part 2: This Is the Dying Phase of Reaganism—and It's Hideous
Part 2
Opinion | This Is the Dying Phase of Reaganism—and It's Hideous | Thom Hartmann https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/12/18/dying-phase-reaganism-and-its-hideous#NeoLiberalism
#Reaganism
#GOPInBedWithRich
#WantTheirSerfsBack"...Prior to this, from the end of the Republican Great Depression right up until the Reagan Revolution — from 1933 to 1981 — the American middle class had a half-century of uninterrupted political and economic progress. About two-thirds of Americans were in the middle class when Reagan was elected in 1980.
Before Reagan, we’d passed the right to unionize, which built America’s first middle class. We passed unemployment insurance and workplace safety rules to protect workers. Social Security largely ended poverty among the elderly, and Medicare provided them with health security.
A top personal income tax rate between 74% and 91% throughout that period kept wages strong for working people and prevented the corrosive wealth inequality we see today. We didn’t get our first billionaire until after the Reagan revolution.
America built colleges that were free or affordable; gleaming new nonprofit hospitals; the world’s finest system of public schools; and new roads, bridges, rail, and airports from coast to coast.
We cleaned up the environment with the Environmental Protection Agency, cleaned up politics with the Federal Elections Commission, cleaned up corporate backroom deals with the Securities and Exchange Commission. We outlawed banks from gambling with our deposits via the Glass-Steagall law.
Then the Supreme Court legalized political bribery with the Buckley and Bellotti decisions (and tripled-down on them both with Citizens United in 2010).
Reagan was the first modern American president to jump through this newly opened door to giving government favors to corporations and wealthy individuals who threw their money at his political party.
He installed America’s first anti-labor Secretary of Labor, our first anti-environmentalist in charge of the EPA (Neal Gorsuch’s mother, Anne), our first anti-public-schools crusader as Secretary of Education, and our first end-times “Jesus will make all things new” fanatic in charge of selling off public lands as Secretary of the Interior.
He cut the top income tax rate on the morbidly rich from 74% to 27%, and tore the top rate for corporations from 50% down to 25%.
To pay for both, he tripled the national debt.
He crushed unions, starting with one of only three that had supported his candidacy: the Professional Air Traffic Controllers (PATCO). He gutted federal support to education, kicking off what is today’s student debt crisis.
He froze the minimum wage. He cut federal benefits to the poor, pregnant women, and the mentally ill, kicking off today’s crisis of homelessness. He encouraged corporations to send our jobs overseas in an orgy of “free trade.”
As a result, money flowed into the GOP like an unending river, continuing to this moment. The result we see today, after a mere 41 years, is stark.
Republican-leaning businesses bought up radio stations from coast-to-coast and put “conservative” talk radio into every town and city in America. Wealthy people began running for political office or supporting those politicians who’d do their bidding.
Conservative donors demanded right-wing economics and political science professors in universities across America. Right-wing think tanks and publishers were funded to support them. Billionaires founded a movement to pack our courts, including the Supreme Court.
As a result, seven years ago the American middle class ceased to be half of us: it went from two-thirds of Americans when Reagan took office to 49 percent in 2015. NPR commemorated it with the headline: “The Tipping Point: Most Americans No Longer Are Middle Class.”
Last year, according to statistics from the US Census and the Fed, middle class households also sank below the top 1% in total wealth. Last year’s most clear-eyed headline went to Bloomberg: “Top 1% of U.S. Earners Now Hold More Wealth Than All of the Middle Class.”"
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#HenryWallace Warns Future #Americans About the #RiseofFascism
The struggle between democracy and fascism: http://newdeal.feri.org/wallace/haw23.htmFrom the Thom Hartmann program.
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For more reporting today on this topic of how billionaires have decisively bought the US and its political system in the Trump era, see:
Caleb Ecarma:
https://oligarchwatch.substack.com/p/how-billionaires-are-hijacking-us
Wajahat Ali and Qasim Rashid:
https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/how-dirty-money-is-buying-democrats
Thom Hartmann"
https://hartmannreport.com/p/the-ceo-presidency-scam-how-republicans-644
#billionaires #Republicans #Trump #oligarchy #EconomicElites #TaxCuts #BigBeautifulBill
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For more reporting today on this topic of how billionaires have decisively bought the US and its political system in the Trump era, see:
Caleb Ecarma:
https://oligarchwatch.substack.com/p/how-billionaires-are-hijacking-us
Wajahat Ali and Qasim Rashid:
https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/how-dirty-money-is-buying-democrats
Thom Hartmann"
https://hartmannreport.com/p/the-ceo-presidency-scam-how-republicans-644
#billionaires #Republicans #Trump #oligarchy #EconomicElites #TaxCuts #BigBeautifulBill
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For more reporting today on this topic of how billionaires have decisively bought the US and its political system in the Trump era, see:
Caleb Ecarma:
https://oligarchwatch.substack.com/p/how-billionaires-are-hijacking-us
Wajahat Ali and Qasim Rashid:
https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/how-dirty-money-is-buying-democrats
Thom Hartmann"
https://hartmannreport.com/p/the-ceo-presidency-scam-how-republicans-644
#billionaires #Republicans #Trump #oligarchy #EconomicElites #TaxCuts #BigBeautifulBill
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For more reporting today on this topic of how billionaires have decisively bought the US and its political system in the Trump era, see:
Caleb Ecarma:
https://oligarchwatch.substack.com/p/how-billionaires-are-hijacking-us
Wajahat Ali and Qasim Rashid:
https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/how-dirty-money-is-buying-democrats
Thom Hartmann"
https://hartmannreport.com/p/the-ceo-presidency-scam-how-republicans-644
#billionaires #Republicans #Trump #oligarchy #EconomicElites #TaxCuts #BigBeautifulBill
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For more reporting today on this topic of how billionaires have decisively bought the US and its political system in the Trump era, see:
Caleb Ecarma:
https://oligarchwatch.substack.com/p/how-billionaires-are-hijacking-us
Wajahat Ali and Qasim Rashid:
https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/how-dirty-money-is-buying-democrats
Thom Hartmann"
https://hartmannreport.com/p/the-ceo-presidency-scam-how-republicans-644
#billionaires #Republicans #Trump #oligarchy #EconomicElites #TaxCuts #BigBeautifulBill
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Trump’s Concentration Camp Build-Out Includes Nearly $40 Billion for Warehouse Conversions
“Germany’s concentration camps didn’t start as instruments of mass murder, and neither have ours,” wrote talk show host Thom Hartmann recently. “History isn’t whispering its warning: It’s shouting.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/list-of-ice-detention-centersfrom #CommonDreams
Feb. 13, 2026President Donald #Trump’s anti-#immigration agenda has supercharged opposition in cities where he has deployed federal agents to conduct raids, and communities in states including New York and Missouri are already working to block the next step the Department of Homeland Security plans to take in its push for mass #deportations: acquiring massive warehouses across the country to use as #immigrant detention centers.
#AbolishICE
#ImmigrantRightsAreHumanRights
#DefendRuleOfLaw
#DueProcessForAll
#StopTheDeportations
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Trump’s Concentration Camp Build-Out Includes Nearly $40 Billion for Warehouse Conversions
“Germany’s concentration camps didn’t start as instruments of mass murder, and neither have ours,” wrote talk show host Thom Hartmann recently. “History isn’t whispering its warning: It’s shouting.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/list-of-ice-detention-centersfrom #CommonDreams
Feb. 13, 2026President Donald #Trump’s anti-#immigration agenda has supercharged opposition in cities where he has deployed federal agents to conduct raids, and communities in states including New York and Missouri are already working to block the next step the Department of Homeland Security plans to take in its push for mass #deportations: acquiring massive warehouses across the country to use as #immigrant detention centers.
#AbolishICE
#ImmigrantRightsAreHumanRights
#DefendRuleOfLaw
#DueProcessForAll
#StopTheDeportations
#ICE #USA #US #USpol #politics #news -
Trump’s Concentration Camp Build-Out Includes Nearly $40 Billion for Warehouse Conversions
“Germany’s concentration camps didn’t start as instruments of mass murder, and neither have ours,” wrote talk show host Thom Hartmann recently. “History isn’t whispering its warning: It’s shouting.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/list-of-ice-detention-centersfrom #CommonDreams
Feb. 13, 2026President Donald #Trump’s anti-#immigration agenda has supercharged opposition in cities where he has deployed federal agents to conduct raids, and communities in states including New York and Missouri are already working to block the next step the Department of Homeland Security plans to take in its push for mass #deportations: acquiring massive warehouses across the country to use as #immigrant detention centers.
#AbolishICE
#ImmigrantRightsAreHumanRights
#DefendRuleOfLaw
#DueProcessForAll
#StopTheDeportations
#ICE #USA #US #USpol #politics #news -
Trump’s Concentration Camp Build-Out Includes Nearly $40 Billion for Warehouse Conversions
“Germany’s concentration camps didn’t start as instruments of mass murder, and neither have ours,” wrote talk show host Thom Hartmann recently. “History isn’t whispering its warning: It’s shouting.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/list-of-ice-detention-centersfrom #CommonDreams
Feb. 13, 2026President Donald #Trump’s anti-#immigration agenda has supercharged opposition in cities where he has deployed federal agents to conduct raids, and communities in states including New York and Missouri are already working to block the next step the Department of Homeland Security plans to take in its push for mass #deportations: acquiring massive warehouses across the country to use as #immigrant detention centers.
#AbolishICE
#ImmigrantRightsAreHumanRights
#DefendRuleOfLaw
#DueProcessForAll
#StopTheDeportations
#ICE #USA #US #USpol #politics #news -
Trump’s Concentration Camp Build-Out Includes Nearly $40 Billion for Warehouse Conversions
“Germany’s concentration camps didn’t start as instruments of mass murder, and neither have ours,” wrote talk show host Thom Hartmann recently. “History isn’t whispering its warning: It’s shouting.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/list-of-ice-detention-centersfrom #CommonDreams
Feb. 13, 2026President Donald #Trump’s anti-#immigration agenda has supercharged opposition in cities where he has deployed federal agents to conduct raids, and communities in states including New York and Missouri are already working to block the next step the Department of Homeland Security plans to take in its push for mass #deportations: acquiring massive warehouses across the country to use as #immigrant detention centers.
#AbolishICE
#ImmigrantRightsAreHumanRights
#DefendRuleOfLaw
#DueProcessForAll
#StopTheDeportations
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_\Dictators for the last hundred years have used national emergencies to take away civil rights - Donald Trump could be planning to use the Insurrection Act to do the same today
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https://youtube.com/watch?v=ClnjQ_dytwsBrian Tyler Cohen W\Marc Elias
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_\Dictators for the last hundred years have used national emergencies to take away civil rights - Donald Trump could be planning to use the Insurrection Act to do the same today
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https://youtube.com/watch?v=ClnjQ_dytwsBrian Tyler Cohen W\Marc Elias
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_\Dictators for the last hundred years have used national emergencies to take away civil rights - Donald Trump could be planning to use the Insurrection Act to do the same today
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CURRENT REALITY FUNDAMENTAL CHOICE
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‘Our Planet’s Vital Signs are Flashing Red: Planetary Health Check 2025Paul Beckwith
https://youtube.com/watch?v=zLpYGk6nJrc #HiddenHistory // #Freedom ||#GlobalWeirding
‘We’re All Socialists — But Only Trump Acts Like a CommunistThom Hartmann
https://youtube.com/watch?v=pMOIz2AXp6A #MoreFromThom¿\ #TimothySnyder’s #BlackEarth
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CURRENT REALITY FUNDAMENTAL CHOICE
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#Calories
‘Our Planet’s Vital Signs are Flashing Red: Planetary Health Check 2025Paul Beckwith
https://youtube.com/watch?v=zLpYGk6nJrc #HiddenHistory // #Freedom ||#GlobalWeirding
‘We’re All Socialists — But Only Trump Acts Like a CommunistThom Hartmann
https://youtube.com/watch?v=pMOIz2AXp6A #MoreFromThom¿\ #TimothySnyder’s #BlackEarth
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CURRENT REALITY FUNDAMENTAL CHOICE
Hello
#Calories
‘Our Planet’s Vital Signs are Flashing Red: Planetary Health Check 2025Paul Beckwith
https://youtube.com/watch?v=zLpYGk6nJrc #HiddenHistory // #Freedom ||#GlobalWeirding
‘We’re All Socialists — But Only Trump Acts Like a CommunistThom Hartmann
https://youtube.com/watch?v=pMOIz2AXp6A #MoreFromThom¿\ #TimothySnyder’s #BlackEarth
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CURRENT REALITY FUNDAMENTAL CHOICE
Hello
#Calories
‘Our Planet’s Vital Signs are Flashing Red: Planetary Health Check 2025Paul Beckwith
https://youtube.com/watch?v=zLpYGk6nJrc #HiddenHistory // #Freedom ||#GlobalWeirding
‘We’re All Socialists — But Only Trump Acts Like a CommunistThom Hartmann
https://youtube.com/watch?v=pMOIz2AXp6A #MoreFromThom¿\ #TimothySnyder’s #BlackEarth
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‘What Do You Do When Your Government Becomes the Criminal(?)Thom Hartmann
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‘What Do You Do When Your Government Becomes the Criminal(?)Thom Hartmann
https://youtube.com/watch?v=YzzE6an8dtE