Inside Why Big Money is Changing the Rules of American Politics

Why are Republican political campaigns suddenly resorting to extreme personal attacks, doctored AI images, and outright fabrications?

Thom Hartmann breaks down how candidates like Vivek Ramaswamy, Mike Rogers, and Scott Perry are leaning into desperate smear tactics—and explains why this behavior is the direct result of a 45-year economic collapse sparked by Reaganism and neoliberalism.

When billionaire-backed policies gut the middle class and fail the public, smear campaigns and authoritarianism become the fallback strategy.