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The War On Critical Thinking And Expertise: How Trump’s Anti-Intellectualism Is Reshaping America
Trump’s America: Where Ignorance Is A Virtue & Knowledge Is An Enemy In 1965, straight out of high school, I wasn’t very “political” but...
Howie Klein
4 days ago8 min read
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Trump, Musk And Stalin vs Expertise... Also Pol Pot, Hitler, Mao And Every Other Authoritarian Ever
In his Atlantic column on Monday, The Death Of Government Expertise , Tom Nichols included an entertaining, albeit sick, line about...
Howie Klein
Feb 197 min read
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Believe It Or Not, Musk's And MAGA's War On Bureaucracy Is A War On Democracy And Expertise
The Spoils System Strikes Back— The Rise Of Autocracy According the the new Economist poll by YouGov 43% of registered voters approve...
Howie Klein
Feb 147 min read
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Trump The Producer Is Casting The Cabinet Like It's "The Apprentice"— Ratings Over Results
Lights, Camera, Loyalty Trump sees himself as a TV producer and he picks his cabinet the same way he would pick his cast. I understand...
Howie Klein
Jan 203 min read
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Do Any Endorsements Go Into Undecided Voters' Decision-Making Calculus?
Do You Think An Undecided Voter Is An Idiot? At Least They're Not MAGAts When Fred Upton (R-MI) retired from Congress in 2023 he had been...
Howie Klein
Oct 25, 20244 min read
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Can Society Function Effectively With QAnon And MAGA Movements Embraced By So Many People?
Politicians Are Playing With Fire Earlier, I exchanged tweets with Paul Meyers about the nature of MAGAtry. He noted that “The entire...
Howie Klein
Jan 6, 20245 min read
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How Much Worse Will Life Get If Trump Or Another MAGA Candidate Gets Into The White House?
Songlands is the finale to John Feffer's dystopian trilogy Splinterlands and when I started reading this essay he wrote yesterday, I...
Howie Klein
Feb 11, 202210 min read
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