OUR REPUBLIC IS BEING DISMANTLED

Our Republic is in mortal danger, as Trump explicitly destroys the pillar of an independent judiciary, protecting his friends and punishing his enemies with the courts. This is serious stuff. Thom asks why he and Bill Maher are virtually the only ones in the media sounding the alarm that Trump is about to go full fascist? Why are we ignoring the history of the takeovers of Mussolini, Duterte, Erdogan, Hitler, and many others? And why aren't Democrats prepared to raise hell over this?

Other topics include.. nominating Alexander Vindman for the JFK Profiles in Courage award... Could Bill the Cat's hairballs beat Donald Trump?.. Will many at MSNBC continue to attack Bernie if he gets the nomination?.. And why we can't keep up the circular firing squad.

Plus Thom reads from the new book 'The Triumph of the Homewreckers' by Aaron Glantz and from 'Rendezvous with Oblivion' by Thomas Frank.