If Democrats continue to ignore the American working class' increasing hatred of neoliberal policies — particularly so-called "free trade" — they'll get buried by it in the next elections. As I detailed last week, the neoliberal era that the Reagan presidency ushered in and has held until the past few years is disintegrating. The idea that the "invisible hand of the free market," putting profits over people and turning America over to our billionaires and corporate monopolies will solve all our problems, is now largely seen as a disaster.

Neoliberal tax-cuts-for-the-rich policies have driven America into massive debt, widespread poverty and unprecedented inequality; neoliberal "free trade" policies have shipped 60,000 factories and tens of millions of American jobs overseas; and neoliberal "privatization" of everything from our military to electric utilities to the Medicare Advantage Scam are widely seen by voters as boondoggles that only benefit the corporate class.

Of these three pillars of neoliberalism that are all now in trouble, however, "free trade" is the most explosive. And, thanks to Donald Trump's openly attacking that system and revealing its failures, the GOP is figuring that out.

If the Democratic Party doesn't get with the program, it's a virtual certainty the White House will go to the Republican candidate in 2024.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Tuesday's Daily Stack

Article: "Time for Democrats to Wake Up on Free Trade or Pay in 2024" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "The Beautiful, Dumb Dream of McDonald's Peace Theory" by Paul Musgrave.

Article: "America is Standing on the Edge of a New Populism" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Time to End the Medicare Advantage Scam" by Thom Hartmann.

Book: The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization by Thomas L. Friedman.

Book: "Rebooting the American Dream: 11 Ways to Rebuild Our Country" by Thom Hartmann

Book: The Tyranny of Big Tech by Josh Hawley.

Article: "The Many Myths of Reaganite Protectionism" by Colin Grabow and Scott Lincicome.

Article: "Some U.S. military parts imported from China" by Wyatt Andrews.

Article: "The North American Free Trade Agreement: Ronald Reagan's Vision Realized" by Michael Wilson.

Article: "'The Speech': How Sanders' 2010 Filibuster Elevated His Progressive Profile" by Scott Detrow.

Article: "The Only Way to Solve Our Supply Chain Crisis Is to Rethink Trade" by Josh Hawley.

Article: "Neoliberalism" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Milton Friedman" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Friedrich Hayek" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Ludwig von Mises" by Wikipedia.

Video: Willie Horton 1988 Attack Ad.

Article: "GOP Candidates, Labor Unions Make Strange Bedfellows" by Tyrone Richardson.

Article: "GM workers ratify contract, 40-day strike ends" by AP.

Article: "Pharma Front Group Has Spent $1.2 Million Backing Sinema" by Andrew Perez.

Article: "China's giant middle class is still growing and companies from Walmart to start-ups are trying to cash in" by Evelyn Cheng.

Article: "Preamble to the Constitution of the United States".
"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."

Article: "Congress passes $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill, delivering major win for Biden" by Annie Grayer, Manu Raju and Clare Foran.

Article: "Chennai underwater as floods wreak havoc " by Times Now.

Article: "Martin Wolf: what trade wars tell us" by Martin Wolf .

Book: Trade Wars Are Class Wars: How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace by Matthew C. Klein, Michael Pettis.

Bill: "S.3816 - Creating American Jobs and Ending Offshoring Act" by Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL].

Article: "17 bills that likely would have passed the Senate if it didn't have the filibuster" by Dylan Matthews.

Article: "An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations" by Adam Smith, 1776.

Article: "Reuters unmasks Trump supporters who terrified U.S. election officials " by Linda So, Jason Szep.

Article: "WATCH: Violent anti-maskers tried to get cookie shop owner arrested – but they ended up in jail instead" by Sky Palma.

Article: "Denmark to lift all remaining Covid restrictions on 10 September" by Jon Henley.

Article: "Understanding the Relationship Between Individual Earnings and Household Income" by Adam Bee and Jonathan Rothbaum.

Quote: "Figures Don't Lie, But Liars Do Figure" - anon.

Article: "Josh Hawley thinks he can make telling his base to stop watching porn a major political campaign" by Hunter.

Article: "Rep. Paul Gosar tweets altered anime video showing him killing Rep. Ocasio-Cortez and attacking President Biden" by Felicia Sonmez.

Article: "Paul Gosar is 'getting worse': Sister explains what's wrong with 'deeply perverted' extremist Republican" by Tom Boggioni.

Article: "North Carolina's extreme new gerrymander, explained" by Zack Beauchamp.

Article: "When Adding New States Helped the Republicans" by Heather Cox Richardson.

Article: "At least 13 Trump officials illegally campaigned while in office, federal investigation finds" by Lisa Rein.

Book: Aikido in Everyday Life: Giving in to Get Your Way by Terry Dobson, Victor Miller.

Article: "19 states passed this year laws to restrict voting, new tally finds" by Fredreka Schouten.

Hour Three: The Ahmaud Arbery Trial
- Debbie Hines, Trial lawyer, former prosecutor and legal/political commentator

Article: "Neighbor 'cornered' Ahmaud Arbery before he was fatally shot, officer says in murder trial" by N'dea Yancey-Bragg , Raisa Habersham , Grace Hauck.

Article: "Judge allows Ahmaud Arbery trial to proceed with just one black juror despite 'intentional discrimination'" by Isabel Keane.

Article: "Man charged in Ahmaud Arbery's murder did not bring up citizen's arrest at scene" by Biba Adams.

Article: "Video shows man who may have been Ahmaud Arbery enter work site" by AP.

Article: "The full moon seems to affect men more than women, and no one is sure why" by Matthew Rozsa.

Article: "Hunter versus farmer hypothesis" by Wikipedia.

Article: "UPDATE: Republican lobbyists are "frustrated," push corporate PACs to resume contributions" by Judd Legum and Rebecca Crosby.

Article: "Kellyanne Conway Resurfaces With Her Most Brazen Trump Lie Yet" by Ed Mazza.

Article: "Shortages In The Pandemic: Toilet Paper, Detergent And Pasta?" by Bill Conerly.

Article: "Electoral College" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The Federalist Papers : No. 68: The Mode of Electing the President " by Alexander Hamilton.

Site: National Popular Vote.

Law: "National Defense Education Act", 1958.

Article: "The history of the GI Bill" by Ryan Katz.

Law: "G.I. Bill" (Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Top 10 U.S. Government Investments in 20th Century American Competitiveness" by Jennifer Erickson.

Article: "Georgia moving toward issuing a special grand jury into Trump's post election behavior – this will be devastating to him" by Liv Barker.

Wednesday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 12-3pm ET

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