Their "Reaganism" sales pitch was effective, and we've now had 42 years of the so-called Reagan Revolution: It's time to say out loud that it hasn't worked.

The 1970s were a pivotal decade, and not just because it saw the end of the Vietnam War, the resignation of Nixon, and the death of both the psychedelic hippie movement and the very political (and sometimes violent) SDS. Most consequentially, the 1970s were when the modern-day Republican Party was birthed.

Prior to that, the nation had hummed along for 40 years on a top income tax bracket of 91% and a corporate income tax that topped out around 50%. Business leaders ran their companies, which were growing faster then than any time in the history of America, and avoided participating in politics.

Democrat Franklin Roosevelt and Republican Dwight Eisenhower renewed America with modern, state-of-the-art public labs, schools, and public hospitals across the nation; nearly free college, trade school, and research support; healthy small and family businesses; unions protecting a third of America's workers so two-thirds had a living wage and benefits; and an interstate highway system, rail system, and network of new airports that transformed the nation's commerce.

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-Thom

Thursday's Daily Stack

Article: "Dear Republicans: We Tried Your Way and It Does Not Work" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Powell Memo".

Article: "Students for a Democratic Society" (SDS) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Federal Assault Weapons Ban" (1994-2004) by Wikipedia.

Book: "The Hidden History of Guns and the Second Amendment" by Thom Hartmann.

Case: "First National Bank Of Boston V. Bellotti", 1978.

Article: "Mulford Act" by Wikipedia.

Article: "'Let's rush in because the cops aren't doing anything': Parents frustrated with 'unprepared' police outside Texas massacre school debated storming the building THEMSELVES while gunman was holed up inside for 90 minutes" by Harriet Alexander.

Article: "Shooter Was Inside School for About an Hour as Police Waited Outside, Per NY Times" by Michael Luciano.

Article: "It's not a gun crisis – it's a spiritual crisis" by David McQuade.

Article: "Most school shootings occur in blue states" by Laura J. Wellington.

Article: "Mass Shootings Aren't So Interesting For Democrats When They Can't Blame A White Supremacist" by Eddie Scarry.

Article: "Uvalde: Ghoulish Dems Go IMMEDIATELY To Opportunism To Advance Political Talking Points" by Wes Walker.

Article: "Joe Biden Waves the Bloody Shirt" by George Parry.

Article: "Opportunist Beto O'Rourke Says the "Only Evil" in the Uvalde Massacre is Governor Abbott" by Michael Robison.

Article: "Marco Rubio Blasts NBA For Politicizing Texas School Tragedy While Perpetually Silent on China Atrocities" by Anthony Farris.

Article: "Watch: NBA's Wokest Head Coach Goes On Absolute Bonkers Tirade Against GOP After School Shooting" by Hailey Sanibel.

Article: "The Morning Briefing: Ever-Classy Obama Uses Texas Massacre to Remind Us He Hates Cops" by Stephen Kruiser.

Article: "Where Senate Republicans Stand on Gun Legislation" by Emily Cochrane, Lauren Leatherby, Alicia Parlapiano, Zach Montague, Aishvarya Kavi, Chris Cameron and Catie Edmondson.

Article: "Maine MAGA candidate: Liberal teachers 'brainwashed' Texas shooter and forced him to go on murder spree " by Matthew Chapman.

Article: "Baseless anti-trans theory about Uvalde shooting spreads online, touted by U.S. congressman" by Jo Yurcaba and Ben Goggin and Ben Collins.

Case: "Roe v. Wade" (1973).

Video: 'You are doing nothing!': Beto O'Rourke confronts Gov. Greg Abbott at Uvalde shooting presser.

Article: "Beto O'Rourke interrupts Texas Gov. Abbott's press conference: "You're offering us nothing"" by Jacob Knutson.

Video: Joe Scarborough: Doing Nothing To Stop This Ongoing Carnage Is A Sin.

Article: "Port Arthur Massacre" by Britannica.

Article: "How Australia Restricted Guns After a 1996 Massacre" by Krishnadev Calamur.

Article: "Tough gun laws in Australia eliminate mass shootings" by Meghan Rosen.

Article: "Kevin Stitt" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Trickle-down economics" by Wikipedia.

Article: "CIP proposes to build BrintØ hydrogen island in Danish North Sea" by NS Energy.

Bible: "Then Simon Peter drew his sword and struck the servant of the high priest, cutting off his right ear. The servant's name was Malchus. "Put your sword back in its sheath!" Jesus said to Peter. - John 18:10-11".

Book: "The Hidden History of Guns and the Second Amendment" by Thom Hartmann.

Law: "2nd Amendment". A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed..

Article: "Trump expressed support for hanging Pence during Capitol riot, Jan. 6 panel told" by Betsy Woodruff Swan and Kyle Cheney.

Article: "Assassination of Abraham Lincoln" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Andrew Johnson" by Wikipedia.

Article: "It's No Radical Idea to Increase the Size of the Supreme Court. The Democrats Should Waste No Time In Doing It." by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "UK imposes 25% energy windfall tax to help households as bills surge" by Reuters.

Article: "Cost of living crisis: Sunak engages in 'serious redistribution' to help UK's poorest" by George Parker.

Article: "Energy bills to be cut by hundreds as part of support package worth billions" by Simon Jack & Michael Race.

Article: "Italy calls on Berlusconi to pay damages for harm to reputation" by DPA.

Article: "2020 United States federal government data breach" by Wikipedia.

Article: "SolarWinds" by Wikipedia.

Article: "What to know about Texas gun laws in wake of Uvalde school shooting" by Joe Harrington.

Article: "What the data says about gun deaths in the U.S." by John Gramlich.

Article: "NRA to host Texas convention days after Uvalde school shooting" by Alexander Nazaryan.

Article: "Cornyn and Crenshaw Drop From NRA Convention, Trump Says He's 'Keeping Commitment'" by Todd Neikirk.

Case: "District of Columbia v. Heller", 2008 (2nd Amendment).

Article: "Columbine Students Are Asking: Will Sharing Photos of the Dead Change Our History of Violence?" by Fred Ritchin.

Video: Chris Rock -- Bullet Control.

Article: "Sacramento 'Gas for Guns Buyback' runs out of incentives in 45 minutes due to massive demand" by Io Dodds.

Article: "Durham sheriff hosts gun buy back event, offering up to $200 for resident's guns" by WRAL.

Hour Three: Covid: What Is the Danger of America Getting Stuck in Complacency?
- Dr. Eric Feigl-Ding, Epidemiologist & Health Economist / Adjunct Senior Fellow - Federation of American Scientists

Article: "Pfizer warns of 'constant waves' of Covid as complacency grows" by Stephen Morris.

Article: "Meet the new subvariants, your summer bummers" by Umair Irfan.

Article: "Adenovirus Or Covid-19: What Is Behind The Outbreak In Child Hepatitis Cases?" by Matthew Binnicker.

Article: "WHO says monkeypox 'containable' as more govts start limited vaccinations" by Jennifer Rigby and Mrinalika Roy.

Article: "Virginia reports case of monkeypox, state's first in recent uptick" by Jenna Portnoy.

Article: "Joe Garcia, husband of Texas teacher killed in Uvalde shooting, dies of heart attack" by Phoebe Wall Howard.

Article: "90 cases of monkeypox confirmed in UK" by Sophie Wingate and Jane Kirby,.

Article: "Monkeypox" by Wikipedia.

Article: "2022 monkeypox outbreak" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Virus Cases Grow After White House Correspondents Dinner" by Chris Cameron.

Article: "13 Things To Know About Paxlovid, the Latest COVID-19 Pill" by Kathy Katella.

Article: "Weekly Hospitalization Trends" by JHU.

Article: "Monoclonal antibody" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Variants of SARS-CoV-2" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Dominant coronavirus mutant contains ghost of pandemic past" (BA.2.12.1) by Laura Ungar.

Article: "Coronavirus: Two types of Omicron classed as variants of concern - symptoms" (BA.4 and BA.5) by Christopher Sharp.

Article: "19 students dead, 2 adults killed after Uvalde elementary school shooting" by CBSDFW.

Site: SHERO (Amee Vanderpool).

Article: "Columbine High School massacre" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Fox News Floats 'Man Traps,' 'Ballistic Blankets' to Stop School Shootings" by William Vaillancourt.

Article: "Japan has almost completely eliminated gun deaths — here's how" by Chris Weller, Erin Snodgrass.

Article: "Biden's false claim that the 2nd Amendment bans cannon ownership" by Glenn Kessler.

Site: "National Popular Vote".

Article: "Fairness Doctrine" by Ronald Reagan Presidential Library & Museum.

Article: "USPS board's governors now mostly Biden picks following latest Senate confirmations" by Jory Heckman.

Article: "Texas abortion law explained: Everything you need to know" by Gustaf Kilander.

Article: "Husband of teacher killed in Uvalde massacre dies two days later from heart attack" by Travis Gettys.

Law: "Telecommunications Act of 1996" by Wikipedia.

Site: WCPT.

Article: "KTNF" by Wikipedia.

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

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