Thus, today’s Republicans are finally close to fulfilling Hammond’s and Reagan’s vision (while ironically repudiating America’s first Republican president, Abraham Lincoln)…

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Trump's collusion with Russia is well-documented and well known- several of Trump's associates have even gone to jail for it. So how can the right wing credibly try to pin Russian election interference on Hilary Clinton?

Plus- Thom reads from "Defying Hitler: A Memoir" by Sebastian Haffner.

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Trump's political Teflon coating is at least a hundred times more effective than Reagan’s was in his wildest dreams. Why?

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Michael Tomasky of the The New Republic is not afraid to use the f-word. When Trump talks about 'the vermin within' and building concentration camps, can we see the modern G.O.P. primarily as anything other than a fascist party?

Also - Why is Trump's treason trial lawyer dragging her feet to protect the former president from his involvement with foreign agents?

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Money-as-speech has metastasized so extensively it threatens to kill its host, ending democracy here and turning America into another Putin- or Orbán-style autocracy run by Trump...

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As much as 20 percent of the American economy is in the grips of Wall Street's bloodsuckers. How does "private equity" get away with pillaging everything from old people's homes, veterinarians, and every other kind of business, loading them up with debt, abandoning retirees, and firing workers just to make a dirty dollar?

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America’s billionaires — along with the rest of us — should be every bit as frightened of the avatars of fascism like Trump, Bannon, and Orbán as they are of the ghosts of the long-dead USSR...

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Why do more Americans have a favorable view of Trump even though Biden's policies are objectively more successful? The economy is growing rapidly, wages are up, factories are being built- why doesn't this translate to support for the Democrats?

Plus- Thom reads from 'After Trump' by Bob Bower and Jack Goldsmith.

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Why both Thomas — whose bribe-taking in exchange for his votes on Citizens United and other cases is well documented — and his rightwing buddy Sam Alito must resign or face impeachment...

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As we begin another boiling summer, big oil is buying politicians like there's no tomorrow- and if they get their way, there might not be. Can we change paths to a green energy future before we make earth largely uninhabitable?

Plus- Thom reads from Climate Chaos: Lessons on Survival from Our Ancestors by Brian Fagan

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