Thom Hartmann: Trump Isn’t Our Biggest Problem, It’s the Authoritarian Fascist Movement He’s Launched
January 4, 2021
“If authoritarian fascism isn’t defeated now, it will certainly tear America apart, will accelerate the growth of fascism” (Henrik Ström)
By Thom Hartmann
Pundits across the American political spectrum are wringing their hands about the fate and future of the “dirty dozen“ Republican senators challenging Biden‘s election.
One of the most widespread stories about their motivation is that they’re “afraid of Trump” or are “worried about being primaried.” Both ideas are wrong.
These people are not taking Trump’s side because they’re afraid. They’re not motivated by what they might lose. Instead, they’re looking to what they might gain in the future.
They’re doing it because Trump has launched an authoritarian fascist movement, with the help and encouragement of a few American and foreign billionaires, and they’re competing with each other to be the next leader or a major player in the senior levels of that movement….
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Thom Hartmann is a talk-show host and the author of The Hidden History of the War on Voting and more than 30 other books in print. His most recent project is a science podcast called The Science Revolution. He is a writing fellow at the Independent Media Institute
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