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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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Ever Since Fascism Became A Thing, "Respectable" Mainstream Conservatives Have Enabled Them
And They're Still Doing That Today In 1922, after avowed fascist, Benito Mussolini led the March on Rome, King Victor Emmanuel III, a...
Howie Klein
Sep 24, 202312 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 Was A Young Radical-- Now I'm More Or Less Siding With The Establishment-- And I Don't Like It
David Lauter has been covering politics for the L.A. Times since 1987. On Friday he described a situation that was awkward for me to...
Howie Klein
Sep 10, 20234 min read
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Alabama Extreme MAGAt Tommy Tuberville Makes His Debut On The National Stage
Senate Equivalent To Marjorie Traitor Greene? Democrats’ most popular foil— short of Trump— has been Marjorie Traitor Greene, a gift that...
Howie Klein
Jul 30, 202311 min read
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Trump's A Fascist And His Congressional Enablers Need To Be Judged Harshly, Extremely So
Trump is counting on his Republican allies in Congress to help his campaign with a vicious government shutdown this fall. And they are...
Howie Klein
Jul 26, 20238 min read
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You May Still Call The Republican Party "The GOP" But A More Descriptive Name Is "Idiot Island"
There Were 2 J-6 Trump War Rooms The Trump campaign’s dominance— despite… well, everything— “is what results,” wrote Jennifer Rubin,...
Howie Klein
Jul 26, 20234 min read
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The Voting Is Over-- Did Spain Just Elect A Fascist-Oriented Government?
Spain went to the polls in a snap election Sunday and the center-right party, PP, suspected it could ride a conservative wave into...
Howie Klein
Jul 24, 20234 min read
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Is There A Path Forward For The GOP That Doesn't Lead To Civil War, Fascism And Treason?
On Monday morning, Punchbowl reported that Missouri freshman Republican senator, Eric Schmitt, has emerged as a major fundraiser for the...
Howie Klein
Jul 18, 20238 min read
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Why Is Homoeroticism So Profoundly Connected To Fascism? Meet GOP Polemicist "Bronze Age Pervert"
Yesterday, I nearly read Politico Magazine’s issue about masculinity. But I didn’t. I had just seen an article, “Making A Gay...
Howie Klein
Jul 17, 202316 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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Are We Going To Allow Trump, DeSantis & The GOP To Drag The Whole Country Down The Toilet With Them?
In 2020, writing for the New York Review, Ruth Ben-Ghiat warned how Trump coopted and corrupted Republican politicians and eventually the...
Howie Klein
Jul 4, 20236 min read
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The New Deal Worked Once... Now Meatball Has An Artificially Sweetened Economic Deal To Hook You On
When Florida Sinks Beneath The Waves, DeSantis Will Move To Alabama I don’t know that many people who live in Florida— and most of the...
Howie Klein
May 28, 202310 min read
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Midnight Meme Of The Day! DeSantis Has Thrown His Hate Into The Ring. Now What?
by Noah Your Saturday Cartoon: How filled with contempt and hate for our LGBTQ, black, and brown communities, and women in general does...
Noah
May 27, 20232 min read
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The Republican Conception Of Freedom Is Downright Orwellian
The Last Thing We Need Is Some Tin Pot Big Brother From Florida Yesterday we looked at what freedom means from the Democratic...
Howie Klein
May 2, 20237 min read
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People Want Justice... In Compton-- Are Trump's Promises Going To Appeal To Them?
Compton is a city in L.A. County. It was formerly a Black majority city but now the population is over 70% Latino. My best friend works...
Howie Klein
Apr 22, 20238 min read
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Book Banning Is An Absolute Precursor To Fascism-- No Two Ways About It, Governor DeSantis
Fascist regimes have historically sought to control information and limit access to books and libraries in order to manipulate and shape...
Howie Klein
Apr 17, 20236 min read
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Fighting Fascism At Home And Abroad-- Brazil's Lula da Silva, California's Adam Schiff
Alexander Burns penned a piece yesterday about Lula’s trip to DC and his proposed global battle against fascism, delivering a “dire...
Howie Klein
Apr 14, 20236 min read
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India Is Often Touted As The World's Biggest Democracy; Let's Be Real--Modi Has No Democratic Values
Gandhi Was Expelled From Parliament Yesterday A couple of days ago, when I was writing about the real-time disintegration of Israeli...
Howie Klein
Mar 25, 20234 min read
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Some People Object To Using The Word "Fascist" To Describe The GOP, Trump & Meatball Ron
Branko Marcetic noted in his coverage of the SVB collapse and bailout that “The spectacular collapse of Silicon Valley Bank was caused by...
Howie Klein
Mar 14, 20237 min read
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