The GOP has no unifying philosophy other than hate, fear, and kowtowing to billionaires and their giant corporations; the people who make up its governing class are similarly fractured.

It all started with the billionaires. Of course, back then they were merely worth hundreds of millions, but in today's dollars they were billionaires even in the 1950s.

President Dwight D. Eisenhower wrote about them in a letter to his rightwing brother Edgar in 1954, the middle of his presidency.

"Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group, of course, that believes you can do these things. Among them are H. L. Hunt (you possibly know his background), a few other Texas oil millionaires, and an occasional politician or businessman from other areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid."

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-Thom

Wednesday's Daily Stack

Article: "Why the GOP is No Longer a Legitimate Political Party" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Letter to To Edgar Newton Eisenhower, November 8, 1954" by Dwight Eisenhower.

Article: "Study: More Republicans than Democrats likely died of COVID - Ohio Capital Journal" by Marty Schladen.

Book: "The Hidden History of Neoliberalism: How Reaganism Gutted America and How to Restore Its Greatness" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Viewpoint: His dark charisma" (Hitler) by BBC.

Article: "The upper class is more Republican" by Razib Khan.

Article: "Full List of 11 GOP Senators Who Voted Against Ukraine Aid" by Darragh Roche.

Article: "Full List of 57 House Republicans Who Voted Against Ukraine Aid" by Darragh Roche.

Article: "Supreme Court Upholds Controversial Ohio Voter-Purge Law" by Nina Totenberg.

Article: "Nixon's Southern Strategy "It'd All in the Charts"" by James Boyd.

Article: "Neal Horsley" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Republican Party Platform of 1956".

Letter: "to Edgar Newton Eisenhower" by Dwight D. Eisenhower, November 8, 1954. "Should any political party attempt to abolish social security ... Their number is negligible and they are stupid"

Case: "First National Bank Of Boston V. Bellotti", 1978.

Article: "The U.S. is now home to nearly 800 billionaires, worth a combined $3.4 trillion" by Adele Peters.

Article: "Nixon's Southern strategy" by James Boyd.

Law: "Civil Rights Act of 1964".

Law: "Voting Rights Act of 1965".

Article: "Says Rick Scott "oversaw the largest Medicare fraud in the nation's history."" by Amy Sherman.

Article: "Saturday Report 10/8/22: How will OPEC's 2-million-barrel-a-day production cut hit America?" by Thom Hartmann.

Case: "Judiciary Act of 1801".

Article: "How Many Times Has The Number Of Seats On The Supreme Court Changed?" by Steve M.

Article: "The Kanye West Tucker Carlson didn't want his audience to see" by Philip Bump.

Article: "Gannett takes 'millions' to print fake conservative news that critics say 'cross the line into propaganda'" by Travis Gettys.

Site: Indivisible.

Site: MoveOn.org.

Article: "Turning Point USA" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Tulsi Gabbard" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Narendra Modi" (India) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Herschel Walker" by Wikipedia.

Book: Breaking Free: My Life with Dissociative Identity Disorder by Herschel Walker.

Article: "Noam Chomsky and Vijay Prashad: U.S. must stop undermining negotiations with Russia to end Ukraine war " by Amy Goodman.

Article: "Medea Benjamin & Nicolas Davies: Negotiations "Still the Only Way Forward" to End Ukraine War" by Democracy Now!

Article: "Ukraine war: Elon Musk sparks fury in Kyiv over Twitter comments about Crimea and Russia" by Euronews.

Article: "PFAS in Building Materials" by Green Science Policy Institute.

Article: "Clarence Thomas" by Wikipedia.

Site: OpEdNews - Rohn Kenyatta.

Hour Two: What It the Consumer Price Index and What Does It Mean?
- Economist Dr. Richard Wolff, Co-founder, Democracy At Work / Author of numerous books - his latest is The Sickness is the System (now also available as an e-book) & Host - Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff on Free Speech TV

Article: "Preview: What to Look for in the September Consumer Price Index" by Dean Baker.

Article: "Consumer Price Index" by BLS.

Article: "Producer price index" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Gap between NYC wage growth and rent growth is widest since 2008: report" by Leonard Greene.

Article: "Stagflation" by Wikipedia.

Article: "We get what we measure: Why policymakers overlook profits as the source of inflation" by Robert Reich.

Article: "Will Powell, MBS, and Putin Throw the Entire World Into a Depression?" by Thom Hartmann.

Book: The Hidden History of Monopolies: How Big Business Destroyed the American Dream by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "The Reagan Assault on Antitrust" by Eddie Correia.

Article: "Mergers and acquisitions" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Merger mania" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Middle class" by Wikipedia.

Article: "How Economic Outrage Trumps Most Other Issues" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Herschel Walker broadens appeal to Georgia Republicans with new story about, uh, livestock sex" by Hunter.

Article: "Got Mule? Bizarre Sex Habits of The Extreme Right-Wing!" by AHiddenSaint.

Article: "Herschel Walker Bizarrely Shares Anecdote About Bull Ditching 3 Pregnant Cows" by David Moye.

Article: "How Republicans Conspire with Churches for Political & Social Control" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "The 3 Richest Americans Hold More Wealth Than Bottom 50% Of The Country, Study Finds" by Noah Kirsch.

Article: "The wealthiest 10% of Americans own a record 89% of all U.S. stocks" by Robert Frank.

Article: "The Washington Post" by Wikipedia.

Article: "How will Twitter change under Elon Musk now £40bn deal is back on?" by Christian Abbott.

Article: "CNN Staff Fears Right-Wing Billionaire Will Turn It Into a Dumpster Fire" by .

Article: "Politico Was Bought by German Billionaire Who Prayed for Trump's Re-Election" by Diane Ravitch.

Article: "Social Security Act of 1935" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Ronald Reagan's 1983 Amendments to the Social Security Act of 1935" by Georgeana Mimms.

Article: "Great Depression (1929 - 1930s) by Wikipedia.

Article: "List of recessions in the United States" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Roaring Twenties" by Wikipedia.

Article: "John Fetterman says stroke he suffered ‘changes everything' about his life" by Richard Luscombe.

Article: "John McCain" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Ruth Bader Ginsburg" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Mehmet Oz" by Wikipedia.

Article: "We need to ban animal testing. Dr. Oz's killing over 300 dogs is a perfect example of why" by Brian Kateman.

Article: "1973 oil crisis" by Wikipedia.

Case: "Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission" (2010).

Bill: "H.R.1 - For the People Act of 2021" by Rep. Sarbanes, John P. [D-MD-3].

Article: "JD Vance Super PAC Receives $3.5 Million Donation From Peter Thiel" by Mary Rooke.

Article: "What's The Matter With Kansas" by Thomas Frank.

Article: "America First Committee" (1940) by Wikipedia.

Article: "America First Party (1943)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "America First Policies" (2017) by Wikipedia.

Article: "America First Political Action Conference"(2020) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Trump Tells Crowd to ‘Knock the Crap Out' of Protesters, Offers to Pay Legal Fees" by Sam Reisman.

Article: "Newt Gingrich" by Wikipedia.

Article: "GOP planning 'catastrophic default' if Democrats refuse to cut Social Security and Medicare " by David Badash.

Article: "Social Security 'In Grave Danger' If GOP Retakes Congress, Advocates Warn" by Jake Johnson.

Article: "Electoral College" by Wikipedia.

Article: "'Our election system can be manipulated': Republican J6 adviser explains why Trump won't need violence in 2024" by Matt Laslo.

Article: "Kari Lake" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Who is Blake Masters? Here's what you need to know about the Arizona GOP Senate candidate" by Ronald J. Hansen.

Article: "Doug Mastriano" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Brian Kemp" (Georgia Secretary of State) by Wikipedia.

Site: Defend Democracy Project.

Article: "‘It's just a full-throttle attack on elections and on democracy in Michigan'" by Jon King.

Article: "Hegemony" by Wikipedia.

Quote: "Modern Ukraine was entirely created by Russia, more precisely, Bolshevik, communist Russia. This process began immediately after the revolution of 1917" - Vladimir Putin.

Article: "Ukraine" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Kyiv" (482) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Moscow" (1147) by Wikipedia.

Article: "An Interview with Michael Hutchison" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Medicare Advantage" (Medicare Part C) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Medigap" by Wikipedia.

Article: "History of Federal Income Tax Rates: 1913 - 2019" by Bradford Tax Institute.

Article: "World War I" (1914 - 1918) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Income tax in the United States" by Wikipedia.

Law: "16th Amendment. "The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.".

Book: "The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism" by Naomi Klein.

Article: "Neville Chamberlain" by Wikipedia.

Thursday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 12-3pm ET

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