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Trump's Blueprint For American Fascism Is Real-- And His Fans Have No Problem With That At All
Don’t mix up Donald P. Moynihan with deceased New York Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a Democrat who played footsie with Nixon and was...
Howie Klein
Nov 28, 20235 min read
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Trump Wants To Be A Dictator; It's More Disgusting That So Many Voters Are Enthusiastic About That
The Threat To Our Country Is Ignorant Wing-Nuts, Not Just Trump Yesterday, Ruth Ben-Ghiat tweeted that a picture of the Capitol being...
Howie Klein
Nov 11, 20234 min read
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Adam Kinzinger vs A Republican Party Wedded To Authoritarianism
The first I remember ever writing about Adam Kinzinger was when then-closet case Aaron Schock was signaling his heart was all aflutter in...
Howie Klein
Nov 1, 20234 min read
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The Media Doesn't WANT To Elect Trump-- They Just Want To Make Money...Even If It Means Electing Him
What Do Fascist Intellectuals Think About? Over the weekend, Jason Wilson explained a term popular among right-wing self-styled...
Howie Klein
Oct 3, 20239 min read
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Kevin Agonistes, Squeaker Of The House
Future Historians, Writing About How America Discarded Democracy To Embrace Fascism, Will Have To Remember Names Like Kirsten Welker,...
Howie Klein
Sep 20, 20238 min read
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I Left During Nixon's Reign & Stayed During Trump's-- If DeSantis Ever Becomes Prez, Move To Holland
More than most Republican politicians, DeSantis has made a name for himself by restricting and taking away people’s liberties and...
Howie Klein
Aug 11, 20234 min read
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How Far Along The Road To Fascism Is "The One Middle Eastern Democracy," Israel Today?
Want To Understand What “Chutzpah” Is? For as much as most of us are following any news out of Israel, this week it is probably about the...
Howie Klein
Jul 6, 20236 min read
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The World Is Falling Apart-- But It Always Has Been... Meet Elon Musk's Hero, Roman Dictator Sulla
Did anyone ever imagine that the MAGAts wouldn’t eventually be at each other’s throats. It’s who they are— what kind of hideous,...
Howie Klein
Jun 15, 20235 min read
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Billionaires And Democracies Are Incompatible-- It's Us Or Them
I think we can all agree that billionaires shouldn’t exist. I’m not necessarily advocating executions— just taxation... say the 1944...
Howie Klein
May 18, 20238 min read
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Flirting With Fascism? The GOP Has Gone Way Beyond First Base... Especially In Florida
Last night on Chris Hayes’ show, former GOP strategist turned #NeverTrump activist Stuart Stevens slammed the Republican Party as an...
Howie Klein
Mar 1, 20233 min read
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Midnight Meme Of The Day! 130 Election Deniers Won Election Or Reelection Last Week!
by Noah It's great that the election deniers who ran for Governor and Secretary of State positions all across the country lost last...
Noah
Nov 16, 20224 min read
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It’s Happened There
-by Nigel Best “One day you’re going to rise from your habitual feast To find yourself staring down the throat of the beast They call...
Nigel Best
Nov 7, 20223 min read
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The Election In NJ-07 Is About More Than 2 Men's Careers-- And The Consequences Could Be Enormous
New Jersey’s 7th district has been redrawn by the state’s Democratic legislature— with an R+1 PVI— to make two conservative Democrats’...
Howie Klein
Oct 30, 20226 min read
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A Scholarly Book Published In 1950 Foretold The Rise Of Donald Trump— And The Descent Of The USA
The F Scale, 2022 Last week, the Canadian Broadcasting Company updated a report from April on a study from 1950 about what kind of people...
Howie Klein
Oct 30, 202214 min read
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The Effects Of Inequality Are Both Worse And More Pervasive Than Is Generally Acknowledged
Grace Blakeley has an infuriating piece in the new Jacobin, Corporate Welfare Props Up the Billionaire Class. “The last year,” she wrote,...
Howie Klein
Oct 10, 20228 min read
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The GOP's Brazen Embrace Of Violence Is A Precursor To Authoritarianism, If Not Civil War
Late last night, as the votes in Maryland’s GOP gubernatorial primary were still being counted, it became clear that the candidate from...
Howie Klein
Jul 20, 20225 min read
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Remember When You Thought The Handmaid's Tale Was Far-Fetched?
Americans— and especially American women— are growing increasingly furious at the 6 reactionaries on the Supreme Court and their...
Howie Klein
Jun 30, 20226 min read
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Midnight Meme Of The Day! Next Up For Republicans: Don't Say Vote
by Noah For Republicans and their dreams of autocracy, it's no longer about just banning books. It was only a matter of time before their...
Noah
Mar 17, 20221 min read
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Is It Too Late For Democracy?
Just before dawn-- right around the time our post about how Americans have turned against the Supreme Court went up-- the NY Times...
Howie Klein
Dec 29, 20214 min read
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GOON-O-RAMA, 2021 In Review, Part 8: A Book Recommendation
-by Noah I don't read as many books as I would like to anymore so when I do, I like to make them count. Ditto for the recommendations....
Noah
Dec 27, 20212 min read
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