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Howie Klein
Nov 27 min read
The Banality Of Evil In Red Hats— 2016-'24: How The Republican Party Base Became The Trump Cult
I Don't Want To Blame Kristol, Sykes And Cheney... But It Wasn't Just Fox In 2020— after 4 years of watching the worst president in...
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Howie Klein
Oct 187 min read
Have You Heard Trump Speak Lately? The Whole GOP Must Be Punished For Wanting To Inflict That On Us
Republicans Know He's Unfit But They Don't Care David French is another one of the NY Times ’ conservative editorialists these days....
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Howie Klein
Oct 164 min read
The Sad Cowardice Of Republican Elected Officials Claiming In Public They're Going To Vote For Trump
MAGA Over America? On Monday, longtime Wisconsin GOP propagandist, Charlie Sykes, today a NeverTrumper, wrote a column for MSNBC about...
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Howie Klein
Sep 126 min read
Down Ballot Republicans Are Worried That Trump's Poor Debate Performance Could Derail Their Careers
Democrats Want A Walz-Vance Debate— Republicans Don't On Wednesday, Karl Rove declared the debate “ a train wreck ” for Señor T, “far...
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Howie Klein
Aug 105 min read
Trump's Weird Press Conference: “That Vast Well Of Stupidity That Takes Up Most Of His Brain”
“The Stupidest Person Who Has Ever Won A Nomination For President” Trump was furious Thursday when he held his Mar-a-Lago press...
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Howie Klein
Aug 27 min read
Trump Succeeded In Reminding His KKK Base That He's Still As Racist As He Ever Was— And Proud Of It
Trump’s appearance onstage at the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) on Wednesday was a bust— or worse. On paper it sounds...
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Howie Klein
Jul 319 min read
Kamala’s Unlikely Coalition: Can NeverTrumpers And Progressive Skeptics Unite?
Another Battle For The Democratic Party's Soul Yesterday, Trump’s nephew Fred Trump, was on The View, where he said he believes in...
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Howie Klein
May 35 min read
If Abortion Is Trump's Electoral Tar Baby, Biden's Is The Protests Over Israeli Genocide In Gaza
Eric Adams 2024 Channels Richard Daley 1968 I was already a left-winger when I saw 14, thanks to my socialist grandfather who had come to...
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Howie Klein
Mar 27 min read
McConnell Is 82 & In Failing Health— Will We Pretend He Was More Than A Scumbag When He Dies?
“His Partisanship Ultimately Overwhelmed His Patriotism-- If That Even Ever Existed” On February 20— my birthday and Mitch McConnell’s...
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Howie Klein
Jan 255 min read
MAGA Cultists Are Delighted To Turn Out For Their Cult Leader-- Others... Not So Much
Yesterday, I noticed that the Financial Times had dug up the same photo that we had of robber baron/bankster, putative Democrat Jamie...
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Howie Klein
Dec 16, 20232 min read
Who To Have Been Hating, 2023... Although There Can Be A Cost
A 2020 study, Violent Extremism and Moral Disengagement found that “Violent extremism is commonly conditioned by a variety of...
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Howie Klein
Dec 16, 20236 min read
Worse Than A Do-Nothing Congress Is A Do-Bad Congress-- This One Is Both
Will Swing Voters Turn On Republican Incumbents Next Year? Yesterday, Theodoric Meyer and Leigh Ann Caldwell reminded Washington...
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Howie Klein
Nov 14, 20238 min read
The 2024 Greater Evil Is Also America's Greatest Evil Ever-- And It's Not Old Joe Biden
Jennifer Rubin’s column on Sunday, A Wasteland: Political Coverage Ignores The Threat To Democracy, was one long kvetch about mainstream...
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Howie Klein
Nov 11, 20234 min read
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...
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Howie Klein
Nov 3, 20233 min read
What Trump Demands From His Allies In Congress: Chaos And Dysfunction… That He Can Blame On Biden
Trump owns the House and the mess there—from an endless battle over the speaker’s gavel, a tit-for-tat fact-free impeachment...
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Howie Klein
Oct 19, 20235 min read
How Much Longer Will Gym Jordan Keep Denying He Lost The Speaker Election?
Does He Really Think He Can Wear Down The Opposition? Gym Jordan’s colleagues turned him down again. Yesterday, on ballot #2 he did even...
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Howie Klein
Oct 18, 20235 min read
Is Gym Jordan Toast-- He Needs To Do A Lot Better Today... Or He's Screwed
Hours before the balloting started yesterday, Jamelle Bouie wrote that “Even some of the Republicans who have vowed, publicly and...
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Howie Klein
Sep 26, 20236 min read
Watch Which Democrats Call For Menendez To Resign-- And Which Democraps Stand By One Of Their Own
Corruption Runs Very Deep In The DC Establishment Corrupt conservative Josh Gottheimer, the consensus Jersey machine candidate for...
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Howie Klein
Sep 14, 20233 min read
McCarthy's Big Mistake Was To Toss Aside Working In A Bipartisan Way Despite Such A Narrow Margin
That Gave Trump And His MAGAts Complete Control Of The House I almost feel sorry for Kevin McCarthy— almost but not— screw him… another...
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