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Howie Klein
Aug 3, 202122 min read
The Rich Have Always Wanted To Kill Democracy-- They Still Do
I have to admit that I don't have many Republican friends. But when I first joined the board of People for the American Way, the...
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Howie Klein
Jul 14, 20216 min read
Godwin's Law Died Years Ago-- Its Rotting Corpse Is Finally Being Buried
In 1990 Michael Godwin came up with a stupid rule that came to be known as Godwin's Law. The upshot was that it was considered outré to...
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Howie Klein
Jul 12, 20216 min read
No One Even Flinches Any Longer When You Call Trump A "Nazi" Or Republicans "Fascists"
The Republican Party has been struggling to turn the failed Trump coup and violent insurrection of 1/6 into a day of heroism and...
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Howie Klein
Jun 28, 20214 min read
Do You Think The GOP Has Devolved Into A Fascist Party?
Watching my country devolve into authoritarianism, if not fascism, has been gut-wrenching. When Nixon was first elected president I left...
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Howie Klein
Jun 13, 20217 min read
America's 2 Party System: Democrats Are A Largely Conservative Party & The GOP Has Turned Fascist
This morning, Dana Bash had AOC on State of the Union as her guest. Eager to lead her into an attack on conservative Democrats, Bash...
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Howie Klein
Jun 13, 20214 min read
Don't Mix Up Ubu Roi With Chip Roy
I keep hearing people refer to Señor Trumpanzee as "former president Ubu." I like Pere Ubu's music and general aesthetic so I didn't get...
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Howie Klein
Jun 4, 20213 min read
Is The Word "Reinstated" Trending?
Sometimes I flip MSNBC on before falling asleep. Last night was one of those times and the video above is what I saw-- Rachel Maddow...
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Howie Klein
May 30, 20217 min read
Republicans Aren't Fooling Around-- They're Done with Democracy
More than a few states have moribund Democratic parties incapable of fielding competitive statewide candidates. Ohio and Florida and the...
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Howie Klein
May 23, 20215 min read
Beware Conservative Calling Themselves Democrats
Right-wing aggression has America's democracy hanging by a thread. The Democrats control the White House and both branches of Congress....
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Howie Klein
Apr 24, 20219 min read
Normal Conservatives Wonder How Their Party Has Turned Violent, Fascist & Know Nothing
This morning, Ross Douthat, writing plaintively about "a conservatism defined by despair and disillusionment," reminded his NY Times...
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Howie Klein
Mar 29, 202110 min read
Guest Post By Progressive Ex-Candidate Liam O'Mara: Woke Lefty Bedwetting
Liam O'Mara was the first candidate Blue America endorsed for the 2022 cycle. The southwest Riverside County super-progressive has...
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Howie Klein
Mar 5, 20215 min read
How Worried Are Congressional Republicans About The Unabashed Fascists In Their Ranks?
Is Federico "Freddie" Klein a member of BLM? No? How about antifa? Is he an antifa poobah from Portland? A socialist from the Bronx (like...
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Howie Klein
Feb 23, 20215 min read
The American Zeitgeist
Tony Schwartz, the guy who ghost-wrote Trump's first book, Art of the Deal, sent out the above tweet last night... and just as I was...
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Howie Klein
Feb 1, 20216 min read
Republicans Are Switching Parties-- But Is That A Good Thing?
Former Bush officials, reported Reuters this morning, have been leaving the GOP, calling their old party a Trump Cult. They're right...
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Howie Klein
Jan 16, 202110 min read
Though It Failed, The Trump Coup Attempt Still Needs To Be Dealt With-- And Very Harshly
Michael McCaul (R-TX) is a typical right-wing establishment politician, except he's also one of the richest members of Congress. He may...
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Howie Klein
Jan 14, 20219 min read
The Most Corrupt, Most Odious, Most Ignorant, Most Ineffective & Most Evil In U.S. History
Let's focus on "the most evil" part of the description. In an OpEd for Haaretz this morning, David Rothkopf wrote that Trump "is...
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Howie Klein
Jan 4, 20216 min read
Trump Isn't Stumbling Into A Civil War. It's What He And Most Of The GOP Want
That's Vanilla Ice performing at the Mar-A-Lago Trump New Years Eve Party. Rep Omari Hardy (D-Palm Beach) has called for the place to be...
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