Author: Thom Hartmann

The fifteen or twenty percent of Americans who follow actual news reporting are dumbfounded. How did America reach this point where about half our country thinks up is down, black is white, and Republicans are best trusted with our money and national security? Only about half of Americans know that Trump set up and wanted the end of Roe v Wade while one-in-five think President Biden is responsible for it. More trust Republicans with the economy than Democrats and 46% say Trump can fix the economy compared to 32% for Biden. Only a third of Americans know that Republicans...

Donald Trump and JD Vance, like most politicians from both parties, love to invoke the American Dream. When billionaire Trump announced his candidacy for the presidency in 2015, he said: “Sadly, the American Dream is dead. But if I get elected president, I will bring it back bigger and better and stronger than ever before and we will make America great again.” When multimillionaire hedge fund manager JD Vance accepted his nomination for vice president at the RNC, he similarly said: “Some people tell me I’ve lived the American dream, and of course they’re right. And I’m so grateful...

The politically cancerous pattern of using racism for political gain and financial profit dates back to the earliest days of our republic, but now, amplified by Donald Trump, is again increasingly in our faces. Black workers at a General Mills plant in Georgia are suing over White management allegedly sanctioning a “Good Ole Boys” club that uses Confederate symbols and open racism to intimidate and cow them. A producer on The Apprentice show is — now that his NDA has expired — telling the story of Trump’s casual and repeated use of the N-word, questioning whether Americans would ever...

Trump lies when saying that the guilty verdict against him, by a jury of his peers that his own attorneys picked was an illegitimate and politically motivated show trial. Trying to help Trump destroy Americans’ faith in our democracy and its justice system, Russian dictator Vladimir Putin’s spokesman recently said of Trump’s trial: “If we speak about Trump, the fact that there is simply the elimination, in effect, of political rivals by all possible means, legal and illegal, is obvious.” Hungary’s dictator Viktor Orbán and Italy’s neofascist Deputy Prime Minister, Matteo Salvini, both also argued that Trump is the...

All across America families are in mourning: their parents and grandparents, particularly the men in their lives, have been stolen from them by the rightwing hate and rage machine. Jen Senko produced a movie “The Brainwashing of My Dad” about losing her own father to Fox “News,” it was also made into a book of the same title. Her story is one replicated across America millions of times: her father — a totally normal Midwestern guy — began watching Fox “News” when he retired and within a year had become withdrawn, bitter, angry, and filled with hate. Jen and...