Author: Thom Hartmann

It is time to talk about what an American fascist government would look like. The word “fascism” gets thrown around a lot, but most Americans have no idea what it would look like or how it would actually play out. It is critical to lay out what a fascist America would look like now because this is what is being envisioned right now by many in the Republican Party, and it might come to pass. They don’t talk about it out loud very much, like Nixon’s man G. Gordon Liddy used to back in the day when he signed memos...

The crisis with the Supreme Court; the racist mass shooter in Buffalo; Republican primary candidates trying to one-up each other on how they will refuse to count all the ballots in the 2024 election; and our hitting 1 million deaths from COVID all derive from the same thing: the destruction of trust. Donald Trump destroyed our trust in our public health institutions for his own political gain, so we have massively more Covid deaths than, for example, Australia. As the New York Times noted this weekend: “If the United States had the same COVID death rate as Australia, about...

President Biden is right. “For God’s sake” and our children’s sake, we must do something about gun violence in America. And we must do it now. Back in 1996, after a few years of mass shootings, Australia experienced a mass slaughter on a scale like we saw yesterday in Texas. Their Supreme Court hadn’t ruled that Australian politicians could be owned by industries, so they passed extensive gun control and a nationwide gun buyback program. It was a turning point, and the mass shootings have since largely stopped. Over at Daily Kos, Walter Einenkel has summarized how many millions...

It is time to stop normalizing and accommodating the White Supremacists among us. They may be a third of America, but they are the lost third, longing for return to a time we will never revisit. Instead of looking forward, they are stuck to a past that will never be revived, no matter how many elections they rig or people they terrorize or kill. The America I was born into and grew up in as a kid was a very different place from today. In the 1950s the country was firmly under the control of straight white men: Blacks –...