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Poor Karl Rove Doesn't Want To Vote For Trump-- But If Push Comes To Shove, He Will
Karl Rove may not like Trump— but in the end, he’s a hard right Republican imbued with the wishful thinking that, as he noted in his Wall...
Howie Klein
May 5, 20235 min read
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Two Pictures Are Worth (At Least) 1,000 Words
-by Patrick Toomey DWT just ran an excellent piece, Hell's Painter by Skip Kaltenheuser, addressing the indefensible invasion of Iraq and...
Patrick Toomey
Apr 30, 20233 min read
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The Same Way The German Billionaires Lost Control After Financing Hitler, GOP Donors Have Lost Clout
They Don't Get To Pick The Nominee A new poll from Marist for NPR shows that most Americans think that the investigations into Trump are...
Howie Klein
Mar 29, 20235 min read
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Sometimes There Just Is No Lesser Evil Running-- So The Democrats Lost CA-13, A Nice Blue District
California’s new 13th congressional district southeast of San Francisco in the rural Central Valley— including voters from Merced,...
Howie Klein
Feb 10, 20234 min read
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As Democrats Sleepwalk Into A Biden Renomination, The Koch Network Announces It Will Help Stop Trump
Dan Balz and Emily Guskin wrote this morning that “Neither Biden nor Trump generates broad excitement within their own party, and most...
Howie Klein
Feb 6, 20234 min read
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Will The GOP Story Hour Finally Upend American Democracy?
On Tuesday, Brian Klaas wrote that American democracy is on life-support “because a particularly insidious disease has infected the core...
Howie Klein
Jan 19, 20238 min read
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Are Democrats Turning Off Young Voters To Electoral Politics?
Young people are inclined to support progressive policies and support candidates who back those kinds of policies. In 2018, 64% of young...
Howie Klein
Dec 12, 20225 min read
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I Held My Nose And Voted Against The Greater Evil
Today could be a big day in our nation’s history. A Republican victory would do that. A Democratic victory… nothin’ much, just more of...
Howie Klein
Nov 8, 20229 min read
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Does Your Town Have "A Donald Trump?" Mine Does-- And We're Going To Get Rid Of Him Now
Not every two-bit narcissistic hustler can be as successful as Trump. In the new issue of The Economist, there’s any insightful look at...
Howie Klein
Oct 3, 20225 min read
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Dems Banking On Their Lesser Of Two Evils Strategy Again-- It's All "Trump, Trump, Trump, Abortion"
Yesterday, reporting for the Washington Post, Yasmeen Abutaleb wrote that “the Democrats’ newly dark [midterm] message is a gamble. Biden...
Howie Klein
Oct 3, 20225 min read
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Tim Ryan Tells Ohio Voters He Doesn’t “Have Time To Defend A Bad Democratic Brand”
Ignore The Bullshit About Him Being Just Like Sherrod Brown Despite what you’re hearing from media folks who don’t know any better and...
Howie Klein
Oct 1, 20225 min read
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Can The Democrats Keep The Speakers Gavel Out Of Kevin McCarthy's Hands?
Emerson’s latest national polling shows Biden with his highest approval rating of the year— 45% (with 49% disapproving), up 3 points...
Howie Klein
Sep 26, 20225 min read
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There's Something The American Democratic Party Can Learn From Italy... But Won't
It will take a while before Italy has a coalition government announced but what’s clear from yesterday’s election is that it will be a...
Howie Klein
Sep 26, 20225 min read
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Thanks To Trump, The Lesser Evil Party Is Pulling Decisively Ahead Of The Greater Evil Party
Just before the Republican Party bloodbath in Alaska yesterday, the Wall Street Journal published a column by Karl Rove trying to buck up...
Howie Klein
Sep 1, 20223 min read
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New Hampshire's Senate Race Is A Pure Lesser Of 2 Evils Contest-- Americans Deserve Better
This Is The Result Of A Corrupt Two Party System When New Hampshire conservative Maggie Hassan (D) ran in 2016, she beat Republican Kelly...
Howie Klein
Aug 28, 20226 min read
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Let's Face It: The Democrats Have Nothing Going For Them Other Than How Bad The Alternative Is
The juice of a carrot, the smile of a parrot A little drop of claret, anything that rocks Dan Pfeiffer wrote this morning that optimism...
Howie Klein
Aug 9, 20225 min read
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Would You Vote For Someone Against Raising The Minimum Wage? How About An Anti-Choice Dem?
Who Wants More Senators Like Manchin & Sinema In A Tent Already Too Big? Of all the Democratic senators up for reelection this cycle, New...
Howie Klein
Jul 19, 20225 min read
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Second Thoughts… And The Nature Of Fascism
Thinkin' Out Loud On Independence Day Writing a post called “Second Thoughts” came to me yesterday after I published a typically...
Howie Klein
Jul 4, 202212 min read
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A Memo: If You Abandon Working Families, They Will Abandon You In November
Biden Thinks He Won Because Of Himself, Rather Than Because Trump Lost Alan Grayson launched his congressional campaign on Tuesday with a...
Howie Klein
Jun 16, 20226 min read
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Maggie Hassan-- The Lesser Evil In New Hampshire
Everyone knows that the Democrats' precarious hold on the Senate is in grave jeopardy because of Manchin and Sinema. But not everyone...
Howie Klein
May 9, 20223 min read
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