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The Hartmann Report

Daily Take: Trump is the Virus, but the GOP is the Host

The Hartmann Report

Thom Hartmann

Congress, Economics, Climate Change, The Hartmann Report, Debate, Democracy, America, Thom Hartmann, News

4.41.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

A virus needs its host: The Republican Party has provided the platform, the protection, and the power that allowed Trump’s assault on democracy to flourish...

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Trump is the virus, but the GOP is the host.

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We spent years watching Donald Trump attack our democratic institutions, inflamed divisions, and corrupt the public discourse.

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But focusing solely on Trump misses the larger, most more disturbing reality.

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Trump isn't acting alone.

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He's a dangerous pathogen that found the perfect

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host in today's Republican Party, an organism already compromised and eager to be infected.

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The evidence of this dangerous symbiosis is alarming and immediate. Just days ago,

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America crossed a threshold that should chill every citizen who still believes

1:28.5

in the rule of law. Kilmar Abrago Garcia, a young man living peacefully in Maryland with no

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criminal record, was ripped from his home and deported to El Salvador, not by rogue agents,

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not by mistake, but in deliberate defiance of multiple federal court orders.

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