The question today is whether we as a nation and a people will recover from it, or if it will, as Reagan promised, destroy the American experiment of pluralistic liberal democracy. Back in 1981, when Ronald Reagan was sworn in and implicitly promised to destroy our government because it was "the problem," many of us who strongly opposed him wondered what the final stage of Reaganism would look like.

Now we know. We're there.

Violence toward women and minorities has exploded. Armed militias tried to assassinate the Vice President and Speaker of the House in an attempted coup directed by the Republican President of the United States. They tried to kidnap and murder the governor of Michigan. They're blowing up power substations from Oregon to the Carolinas. They've embedded themselves in DHS, police departments, and our military. They're coordinating with fascists overseas.

Leading up to this moment was a 41-year political war that splattered the American Dream like gut-shot blood across a dystopian Republican hellscape mural.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Friday's Daily Stack

Article: "What the Final Stage of Reaganism Looks Like" by Thom Hartmann.

Speech: "First Inaugural Address of Ronald Reagan", January 20, 1981.

Law: "Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971".

Article: "Why Do We Let Psychopaths In Suits Get Away With Murder?" by Thom Hartmann.

Case: "Buckley v Valeo".

Case: "First National Bank v Bellotti".

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

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

Book: "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson.

Book: "Unsafe at Any Speed" by Ralph Nader.

Article: "op 1% of U.S. Earners Now Hold More Wealth Than All of the Middle Class" by Alexandre Tanzi and Mike Dorning.

Law: "Tillman Act".

Article: "The Lewis Powell Memo: A Corporate Blueprint to Dominate Democracy" by Lewis Powell.

Article: "The Tipping Point: Most Americans No Longer Are Middle Class" by Marilyn Geewax.

Article: "Iran Hostage Crisis" by Wikipedia.

Article: "'Argo' helps Iran's dictatorship, harms democracy" by Abolhassan Bani-Sadr.

Article: "Understanding the Iran-Contra Affairs" by Brown University.

Article: "Twitter goes on banning spree of journalists reporting on Elon Musk" by Brad Reed.

Article: "Elon Musk flees reporters after journalist 'purge' as EU official threatens Twitter 'sanctions'" by Igor Derysh.

Article: "Elon Musk Sells Another Big Chunk of Tesla Stock" by Michael J. de la Merced and Peter Eavis.

Site: Thom Hartmann on Mastodon.

Site: Tribel.

Site: Post.

Site: Thom Hartmann on LinkedIn.

Site: End The Bribe System (incl. bumper stickers).

Article: "45,000 Trump cards worth $4.5 million sell out in half a day" by Ryan Morgan.

Article: "Trump's trading card grift is worse than you think." by KurtEichenwald.

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

Article: "DeSantis calls for grand jury to investigate Covid-19 vaccines" by Arek Sarkissian.

Article: "Covid-19 vaccines have saved more than 3 million lives in US, study says, but the fight isn't over" by Jen Christensen.

Article: "Vaccines Are Effective Against Long COVID: Study" by Lisa O'Mary.

Article: "Ronald Reagan Lived Here: An Inside Tour of His Pre-White House Home" by Judy Dutton.

Article: "Flightradar24" by Wikipedia.

Book: The Open Society and Its Enemies by Karl R. Popper.

Article: "Sparta" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Classical Athens" by Wikipedia.

Hour Two: Veteran War Correspondent in Kiev, Ukraine
- Phil Ittner, Veteran War Correspondent in Kiev, Ukraine

Article: "Russia launches 'one of the biggest rocket attacks' on Kyiv as 60 missiles swarm Ukraine, officials say" by Hanna Arhirova and Jamey Keaten.

Article: "The Blitz" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Holodomor" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Ukraine" by Wikipedia.

Site: Ukraine Children's Action Project.

Article: "Irwin Redlener" by Wikipedia.

Site: Philip Ittner on Youtube.

Article: "Fusion energy breakthrough by US scientists boosts clean power hopes" by Tom Wilson.

Article: "Democratic runoff wins have Georgia Republicans thinking about changing the rules again" by Laura Clawson.

Article: "House Passes Bill That Could Pave the Way for Puerto Rican Statehood" by Emily Cochrane and Patricia Mazzei.

Article: "Puerto Rico political status plebiscites" by Wikipedia.

Article: "‘I Can't Believe I'm Going to Jail for an NFT Salesman': Jan. 6 Rioter Seemingly Done with Trump After Announcement Flop" by Kipp Jones.

Article: "‘I Can't Do This Anymore': Steve Bannon Ridicules Trump's NFT Announcement, Says Those Involved ‘Oughta Be Fired Today'" by Michael Luciano.

Site: "The Righting".

Article: "Trump Emigrates To Clown World" by Rod Dreher.

Article: "Don't give any money to con artist Trump" by NY Post Editorial Board.

Article: "Is there a brilliant ulterior motive behind Trump's baseball card fundraiser?" by Andrea Widburg.

Article: "Elon Explains Media Suspensions, but Screeching Liberal Hypocrites Can't Take It" by Nick Arama.

Article: "Proud Boys Plan to Protest Jacksonville Drag Queen Performance Open To Children" by Zac Howard.

Article: "California Democrat Congresswoman Katie Porter Claims Pedophilia is Not a Crime, It's an ‘Identity'" by Shane Trejo.

Article: "RadioShack" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Crystal radio" by Wikipedia.

Article: "New Laws Coming To Illinois Coming January 1st" by Heather Rice.

Article: "Illinois Becomes the First State to Require Media Literacy Classes for High School Students" by Teresa Albano.

Article: "Illinois votes to protect collective bargaining rights in state amendment" by John O'Connor.

Article: "Illinois Lawmakers Seek to Ban Assault Weapons with HB 5855. Here's What It Does".

Article: "How Michael Flynn Goes Local to Spread Christian Nationalism" by Michelle R. Smith.

Article: "Sarasota County Schools vote to fire superintendent" by WFTS-Tampa.

Article: "Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey signs private school voucher expansion bill, now largest in U.S." by AP.

Hour Three: The hope and tragedy of climate change
- Dr. Michael Mann, University Distinguished Professor & Director of the Center for Science, Sustainability and the Media, University of Pennsylvania / Author of a number of books, most recently, The New Climate War

Article: "The Arctic Is Becoming Wetter and Stormier, Scientists Warn" by Raymond Zhong.

Article: "Climate Change Impact on the Mississippi River Has Major Consequences" by Ray Lombardi, Angela Antipova and Dorian J. Burnette.

Article: "Outlook 'Grim' Halfway Through Global Biodiversity Summit, Climate Groups Warn" by Julia Conley.

Article: "'Our Generation Is Taking Over': Sunrise Movement Launches New Strategy for 2023 and Beyond" by Julia Conley.

Article: "From Gujarat to the World (and back again)" by Bill Spindle.

Article: "At least 3 dead and multiple injured as tornadoes wreak havoc across Louisiana and the Southeast" by Amir Vera.

Article: "Why Is Elon Musk Empowering Climate Denial On Twitter?" by National Memo.

Article: "A third of Pakistan is underwater amid its worst floods in history. Here's what you need to know" by Kathleen Magramo,.

Article: "COP26: New commitments fail to meet Paris Agreement" by UN.

Article: "Yes, Climate Change Is Making Severe Weather Worse" by Jennifer Francis.

Article: "Exxon Mobil Knew About Climate Change, But Lied for Years: Report" by Joe McCarthy.

Article: "Barges hit bottom of Mississippi River as water levels approach historic low" by Brian Lada.

Article: "The Rhine runs DRY and is set to become impassable to crucial coal barges, with Europe on course to suffer worst drought in 500 YEARS and 'extremely violent' wildfires ravaging France in 100F heat" by Jack Newman.

Article: "Climate disasters defined 2022. These were some of the biggest." by Teodosia Dobriyanova.

Article: "Drought provokes shutdown of nuclear reactors in northeast France" by RFI with Mike Woods.

Site: Sunrise Movement.

Article: "Greta Thunberg" by Wikipedia.

Book: Across Atlantic Ice: The Origin of America's Clovis Culture by Dennis J. Stanford, Bruce A. Bradley.

Book: Deadly Voyager: The Ancient Comet Strike that Changed Earth and Human History Paperback by James Lawrence Powell.

Book: The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber, David Wengrow.

Article: "Clovis culture" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Solutrean hypothesis" by Wikipedia.

Site: The Hartmann Report.

Site: Social Security Works.

Site: Physicians for a National Health Plan (PNHP).

Article: "‘The Cash Monster Was Insatiable': How Insurers Exploited Medicare for Billions" by Reed Abelson and Margot Sanger-Katz.

Article: "Understanding the Iran-Contra Affairs" by Brown University.

Article: "Reagan Still Doubts Iran-Contra Events : Testimony: The former President denies authorizing a diversion of funds to the Nicaraguan rebels. His taped deposition for the Poindexter trial is released" by Sara Fritz.

Article: "Jobs created during U.S. presidential terms" by Wikipedia.

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

Article: "Rachel Maddow uncovers a WWII-era plot against America in 'Ultra'" by Terry Gross.

Article: "Rachel Maddow Presents: Ultra".

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