Thom Hartmann is a talk-show host and the author of 'The Hidden History of Monopolies: How Big Business Destroyed the American Dream' (2020); 'The Hidden History of the Supreme Court and the Betrayal of America' (2019); and more than 25 other books in print.
“It was natural and perhaps human that the privileged princes of these new economic dynasties, thirsting for power, reached out for control over Government itself. They created a new despotism and wrapped it in the robes of legal sanction. In its service new mercenaries sought to regiment the people, their labor, and their property. And as a result the average man once more confronts the problem that faced the Minute Man.” — President Franklin D.
With dissenting voices silenced in the media and judges willing to overlook his blatant violations of Hungarian election laws , Orbán was able to win every election since.Vladimir Putin followed a similar script a few years earlier; once he had control of the judiciary and Russia’s media, he was able to stomp all over that country’s new and fragile democratic institutions and intimidate the Russian parliament .
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