Trump Said He'd Flee The Country If He Loses— Judge Chutkan Should Confiscate His Plane & Passport
Worst President In History, Part 34 On Tuesday, Ari Melber had former Fox anchor and Trump ally Geraldo Rivera on his MSNBC show , where...
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Howie Klein
Oct 205 min read
Over Decades, Conservatives Have Succeeded In Their Top Agenda Item: Dumbing Down The Population
Writing for The Bulwark last week, Jill Lawrence noted that “[Y]ou can’t take it for granted that most voters remember their high...
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Howie Klein
Oct 126 min read
Who's Going To Save Us From An Undead Confederacy Risen From The Grave— In Service To Billionaires?
Writing for The Atlantic yesterday, Renée DiResta noted that Twitter’s flood of conspiracy theories now define reality for the far right...
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Howie Klein
Oct 212 min read
Trump’s Ugly Self-Interest Is Bad Enough— But It’s Vance Who’s Plotting To Undermine Democracy
Orwell’s Nightmare— Rebooted By Vance, Thiel And Curtis Yarvin Monday, on Twitter, CNN anchors Kaitlin Collins and Jim Sciutto went back...
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Howie Klein
Sep 225 min read
Is The Republican Party Really Waging Interconnected Wars Against American Women And U.S. Democracy?
Yes, But In Some States— Like Florida & Texas— More Than Others In 2008, Obama took winning Florida’s 27 electoral votes very seriously....
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Howie Klein
Aug 207 min read
As Trump Sabotages His Own Campaign, My Heart Isn’t Breaking For Susie Wiles And Chris LaCivita
Messy, Noisy GOP Civil War On The Far Right Fringes Over the weekend, Drew Harwell reported that some of the internet’s most influential...
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Howie Klein
May 169 min read
I'm Certain That Sartre Would Agree That The MAGA Movement Poses An Existential Threat To Democracy
Also Political Violence— Reminiscent Of 1930s Italy And Germany This is objectively, provably true: far right extremism poses an...
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Howie Klein
May 107 min read
The Long-Simmering Republican Party War Against Democracy Kicks Into High Gear
Patrick Svitek, who works for the Washington Post now, covered politics for the Texas Tribune for the last decade; he knows what the...
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Howie Klein
Apr 278 min read
Even Without Trump Present: Odor In The Court! Oder In The Court!
Can you feel the anger emanating from college campuses. If the Supreme Court agrees that a president— or at least one named Trump— is...
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Howie Klein
Apr 257 min read
Can Arizona Show Us That Crime Does Not Pay? Rudy Giuliani, Kelli Ward, Etc Are About To Find Out
BONUS: Washington State GOP Declares War On Democracy Late Thursday, the Arizona Republic reported that the state’s attorney general,...
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Howie Klein
Mar 16 min read
Russo-Republicans In Congress Are As Determined As Trump Is To Hand Ukraine Over To Russia
Bonus: Hungary-- Always On The Wrong Side Of History The white flag the Russo-Republicans in the House have been carrying around the...
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Howie Klein
Jan 1411 min read
Which Is A More Existential Threat— Trump Or Artificial Intelligence? Or A Combination?
Risk Assessment 2024 The Eurasia Group is a political risk consultancy, started by Ian Bremmer in 1998. Their annual risk assessment...
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Howie Klein
Jan 143 min read
Tomorrow Is GOP Caucus Day In Iowa-- Utterly Meaningless, But The Conservatives Spent $300 Million
All Losers, No Winners My grandfather’s rural village, in what is now Ukraine, had been decimated by Cossacks. He was a teenager— and a...
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Howie Klein
Jan 1013 min read
Dancing With Deceit: A Society Unraveled By The Corrosive Power Of Distrust
Can America Mend the Divide? Or Is It Too Late? Pennsylvanians who follow state politics know that Rep. Stephanie Borowicz is out of her...
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Howie Klein
Jan 73 min read
Are You Worried About MAGA Violence Around This Year's Election Or If Trump Is Convicted?
In a guest column for The Atlantic yesterday, Nancy Pelosi wrote that Trump “had long planned for the nullification of the election,...
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Howie Klein
Dec 25, 20235 min read
From Resentment Politics To Vengeance Politics—a Guest Post By Zoe Roberts
I met Zoe Roberts when she was managing the congressional campaign of a candidate Blue America had endorsed. When I saw she had written a...
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Howie Klein
Dec 11, 20235 min read
Why Did Some Jews Vote For Hitler? Same Reasons Some Jews— And Other Minorities— Back Trump Today
And It Isn't Only About Low IQs Señor Trumpanzee at the neo-Nazi New York Young Republican Club, on Saturday, when the other GOP...
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Howie Klein
Dec 4, 20236 min read
How Far Down The Rabbit Hole Has The Republican Party Gone With Trump? Is There Anything Left?
Will Liz Cheney Be The Last Anti-MAGA Republican Left Standing? Trump has many debilitating psychological conditions. The most commonly...
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Howie Klein
Nov 30, 20236 min read
2024— Not Another Lesser Of Two Evils Election… Way Beyond That
March, 1933 Germany Had One Last Chance To Save Itself From Naziism-- 17,277,180 People (43.9%) Voted For Hitler & That Was The End...
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Howie Klein
Nov 19, 20234 min read
No More Making Fun Of Señor Trumpanzee, Matt Gaetz, Marjorie Traitor Greene And George Santos?
Did you read the last post, the one with “Señor Trumpanzee” in the title. Tom Nichols thinks that with much of America’s politics having...
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