Why are so many Americans willing to support hate and division?

Donald Trump has told us that only 9000 people have died of the corona virus in the United States, that shooting an unarmed man in the back seven times is like a bad putt at golf, that protests are being led by an airplane full of black-jacketed “thugs,“ and refused to condemn a vicious murderer who killed two people and blew the arm off a third. Now, he is threatening the Mayor of Portland with federal troops again.

Which raises the question, is this the America the majority of voters want to live in? If the polls are any indication, almost half of America is right there with him. Why is this?

John Dean, who worked for Nixon, joins Thom to talk about his new book, 'Authoritarian Nightmare', which looks at studies of that Trump supporters' basic personalities, and possible roots in their damaged childhoods.

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Ted Wheeler, the mayor of Portland, and Joe Biden have both challenged Trump to condemn violence by all sides. But is Trump instead trying to start a civil war by taking lessons from past strongman regimes like the Nazis?

Thom is joined by Alexander Reed-Ross, a doctoral fellow at the Center for the Analysis of the Radical Right. To what extent are police supportive of, or even infiltrated by racist right-wing Trump supporters? 

And Thom welcomes Dr. Bandy Lee, Yale professor and editor of the book 'The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess the President'. How does Donald's diagnosis predict how he will respond to events as the election gets closer?

Plus, Thom's third brilliant guest today is Jean Guerrero, investigative reporter and author of "HATEMONGER: Stephen Miller, Donald Trump and the White Nationalist Agenda".

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Last week the lies flowed like water at the Republican Convention, while Trump supporters went on hunting trips to kill peaceful protesters in the streets- will the predators succeed? Will the actions of the NBA and many others standing up against police brutality be only a moment, or a movement? Which America will prevail?

Plus - Trump is using the CDC to suppress the Covid case numbers in the runup to the election. Does the Republican death cult not care about the pandemic because they know the impact- like almost all adverse health impacts- falls disproportionately on people of color and the poor? Will America ever live up to its ideals of equality, or will we re-elect hate?

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Thom once again welcomes Progressive Congressman Ro Khanna to the air to discuss the issues of the day from his perspective. Will the public fully recognize the hypocrisy of the Republican party running on law and order while egging on the lawless murder of peaceful protesters? And is Trump deliberately creating a mess for Joe Biden to inherit?

Plus Thom's callers on... do dogs really vote??. Protecting our Postal Service... The real cancer at the core of democracy... Crawling through glass to vote... And.. is the First Lady a gold-digger?

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After Trump massively violated the Hatch Act by being the first American president in history to campaign from the White House, will there be an investigation? Will Covid take its toll as it did on Herman Cain? Do any of the Republicans on Fox News care enough about this country to wake up and realize there is a con-man and criminal in the White House?

Thom hears from Ben Jealous, the president of the People for the American Way on Trump's latest crimes, and on why the Democratic party may be failing to get out the Latino vote. Also Tom Perez, the chair of the Democratic National Committee shares his take on the lies told at the Republican Convention- and what the Democratic Party is doing to fight back.

Plus- did Trump inspire the right-wing 17 year old who murdered protesters in Wisconsin?

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Will you be able to protect yourself from a financial crash, how will an economic crash now affect the 2020 election? Can this turn into a recession, a depression or something even worse?

Thom Hartmann and Richard Wolff discuss just how big this pop will be!

Is This Our Last Chance To Return Manufacturing Jobs To The US?

(w/ Rob E. Scott, Senior Economist and Director of Trade and Manufacturing Policy Research.)

Can the US restore manufacturing jobs before Trump breaks off all sensible business and imports from China? Why has our manufacturing all gone offshore? It is all about subsidies and tariffs.

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Unfit, a new film by Dan Partland, proves that Donald Trump is psychologically unfit to be president of the United States. When the duty to warn outweighs the Goldwater guideline.

From Nixon’s “silent majority“ and “war on drugs“ to Reagan’s first speech as a presidential candidate near the Mississippi site were three civil rights workers were murdered as he warned an all white crowd about the urgency of “state’s rights,“ the GOP under Donald Trump is fundamentally no different than it has been for the last 60 years.

For the Book Club, Thom reads from "A Castle in Wartime: One Family, Their Missing Sons, and the Fight to Defeat the Nazis" by Catherine Bailey.

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The Republican convention’s first day was filled with sturm und drang, warnings and fear, hysteria and demagoguery. And what were they so concerned about? Sadly, most of the media is treating Trump and the weird show of supplicants and family members last night, as if he were some sort of aberration. In reality, Donald Trump is the logical endpoint of the Republican Party that started, in the Nixon and Reagan years, embracing racialized fear, irrational hatred, and a strategy of pitting Americans against each other.

- Kris Kobach Uses Border Wall Group to Fund Senate Bid 

- So why wasn’t he busted, too? Bannon bust has the smell of a Roger Stone special: He had to take down Bannon, the key witness in his trial.

Investigative Journalist, Greg Palast explains.

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Even the professional war criminals, George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, are not willing to show up to this weeks Republican convention.

It has become a death cult, where Trump’s own supporters enthusiastically cheer his efforts to make America more brutal, crude, and deadly.

Thom is joined by Jacob Soboroff, Correspondent-NBC News & MSNBC / Author of the new book, SEPARATED: Inside An American TragedyA Private Security Company Is Detaining Migrant Children at Hotels.

Under emergency coronavirus orders, the Trump administration is using hotels across the country to hold migrant children and families before expelling them.

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Congressional Progressive leaders Ro Khanna and Mark Pocan join Thom taking listener questions! Is the Postal Service being set up for privatization?.. Can the Postmaster General be prosecuted for destroying our machines?.. Will Trump succeed in getting elected by voter suppression?- and what might be his end game?.. 

Plus- Ending the revolving door between regulation and industry... And- campaign signs: the grassroots solution.

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