Trump Has Been Busy Crashing His Numbers All Week— Soon He'll Reach The Point Of No Return
The reporting behind Ed Kilgore’s new column, Harris vs Trump Polls: Kamala’s Gains Are Now A Trend, Not Just A Bounce has Trump...
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Howie Klein
Apr 107 min read
Anti-Choice Fanatics Are Celebrating Their Big Arizona Win— But GOP Candidates Are Freaking Out
The day after Trump’s phony-baloney messaging video on abortion— basically, “let the states decide; I’m not an extremist nut case like...
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Howie Klein
Mar 184 min read
At The Heart Of Trumpism— As With All Authoritarian Movements— Is A Raging River Of Disinformation
Anne Applebaum has a good understanding of how authoritarian regimes have used disinformation to grab power. Yesterday she watched clips...
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Howie Klein
Jan 313 min read
The MAGA Republican Party Has Given Up On The Rule Of Law On Every Level
5 of Wisconsin’s 6 conservative Republican congressmen, Glenn Grothman, Mike Gallagher, Bryan Steil, Tom Tiffany and Scott Fitzgerald,...
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Howie Klein
Dec 7, 20233 min read
Kevin McCarthy Calls It Quits-- Sticks It To MAGA Mike And His Very Precarious Republican Majority
A Couple More And Hakeem Jeffries Is Speaker Yesterday, Kevin McCarthy started the news day off with an anodyne OpEd in the Wall Street...
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Howie Klein
Nov 3, 20237 min read
Trump Dreams Of Exacting Revenge-- Against America
Retribution Is What He And His MAGAts Want Yesterday Ed Kilgore wondered if Biden is risking a backlash with his blank check to Israel...
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Howie Klein
Jul 23, 20234 min read
Worst Label In American Politics: No Labels
Both Biden and Trump are have abysmally low favorability ratings and immense numbers of voters don’t want either of them— not to mnetion...
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Howie Klein
Jul 16, 20236 min read
Indictments Haven't Hurt Trump's Polling-- Will They? Will Republicans Vote For Him If He's In Jail?
No one knows what’s going to happen this coming November— let alone in November, 2024. Still, there are hints and trends worth examining....
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Howie Klein
Jul 7, 20232 min read
Ohio Was Once The Measurement Of Political Normalcy-- Can That Be Reclaimed?
As a state, Ohio has an R+6 PVI— worse than Texas (R+5), Florida (R+3), North Carolina (R+3) or Georgia (R+3), not to mention Virginia...
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Howie Klein
Jun 4, 20235 min read
Trump And The Evangelicals-- Made For Each Other
How much time do you spend wondering what the hell is wrong with these people who support Trump? Is it mostly the bigotry or mostly that...
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Howie Klein
Apr 11, 20234 min read
The Republican Party May Be Toxic To Normal People… But It Isn’t To Republican Voters
What Happens If DeSantis Bows Out? Meatball Ron wants this to be his moment. That doesn’t mean it is his moment, though. Trump is...
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Howie Klein
Mar 23, 20233 min read
Who Will Hurt Trump More Effectively-- Alvin Bragg Or Rupert Murdoch?
Short of Rupert Murdoch going on Tucker Carlson’s show and announcing that Fox is officially backing DeSantis for president, Fox is...
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Howie Klein
Mar 19, 20236 min read
Republicans Don't Much Like Any Of Our Laboratories Of Democracy, Do They?
On Tyranny, 2023 Remember when we were talking about how blue states could be laboratories of democracy, a concept first developed by...
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Howie Klein
Mar 4, 20233 min read
My First Night Out On The Town Since COVID Started
One of the greatest moments of rock'n'roll history. RIP George Harrison. RIP Tom Petty. Bob Dylan will be 81 in May. Roger McGuinn will...
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Howie Klein
Feb 19, 20236 min read
Reactionary Republicans— The Old Country Club Variety— Have Grabbed The Third Rail And Can’t Let Go
Biden And Trump will Eat Them Alive Neither Trump nor Biden has clean hands when it comes to Social Security. Trump is an inveterate liar...
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Howie Klein
Feb 10, 20235 min read
Let's Not Forget Sister Sarah--Even If Virtually The Whole Country Skipped Her Part Of The Circus
I don’t know anyone who stuck around after Biden’s speech to watch Trump’s old spokesperson, Sarah Huckabee Sanders. I know a couple of...
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Howie Klein
Jan 22, 20236 min read
Is Trump's Support Really Leaky-- And Does His Team Know How To Plug The Leaks?
Yesterday, in his New York Magazine column, Ed Kilgore wondered aloud if Trump could run to DeSantis’ left in 2024. Trump will never have...
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Howie Klein
Dec 29, 20228 min read
At What Point In This Story Does George Santos Seek Asylum In Moscow?
I’m starting to feel sorry— well, almost starting to feel sorry— for the Brazilian Lying’ King. George Santos took a flier in an open...
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Howie Klein
Nov 12, 20227 min read
Will The Republican Party Establishment Get Revenge Against Trump-- Or Will He Beat Them Again?
I was just looking at the list of Pennsylvania members off Congress from 2006, when Blue America was just getting started. The last one...
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Howie Klein
Jun 21, 20223 min read
The Illegitimate Trump Court Isn't Only Abolishing Choice But Also Separation Of Church And State
If you went to school in the U.S., you probably know what separation of Church and State is. For one thing, it is the first clause of the...
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