Thom Hartmann: There Has Not Been a Legitimately Elected Republican President Since Dwight Eisenhower

Tuesday, 08 April 2014 13:13
By Mark Karlin, Truthout | Interview

Thom Hartmann, of course, appears on Truthout at least five days a week, and is also seen regularly in videos of his television program, "The Big Picture," on BuzzFlash at Truthout.

He talked with Truthout about his latest book The Crash of 2016, a discussion that included Hartmann's wide-ranging counterpoints to a corporate media of conventional wisdom, including the notion that many US CEOs are sociopaths.

The following is an excerpt from that extended interview:

MARK KARLIN: You use the term economic royalists often in the book to define the oligarchy in the US. How would you define the term?

THOM HARTMANN: The economic royalists are the people who have enough wealth and income that they have the ability to influence public policy in a very significant and meaningful way. The way that I use to define those people in the book is the multimillionaire and billionaire classes who are using their wealth to advance their own interests politically, but sometimes just as an economic weapon to suck up money from the rest of the population.