Republicans See Today as an Opportunity to Set Up the End of Democracy in 2024

Thom Hartmann
9 min readNov 8, 2022

The GOP wants to install their very own version of Putin, Duterte or Orbán in the White House in two years, regardless of what the majority of Americans want. VOTE!

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There are only two ways that independent nations can be governed: by the people themselves through free and fair elections with maximum participation, or by an elite group that is only acting for its own benefit.

Democracy or autocracy. Freedom or oligarchy. Liberty or tyranny. Violence or the rule of law.

Trump and virtually the entire GOP have chosen autocracy, going all-in on voter intimidation, throwing people off voter rolls or preventing their votes from being counted, and trying to rig future elections.

And they’re getting a big assist from other countries that have already been taken over by autocrats like Trump aspires to become. Countries that are trying to take down democracies all over the world.

Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau held a press conference and announced yesterday that China is actively interfering with Canada’s democracy.

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Thom Hartmann

America’s #1 progressive talk show host & NY Times bestselling author. Thom’s writings also appear at HartmannReport.com.