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Howie Klein
Mar 16, 20236 min read
In Today’s Republican Party, Everyday Is Halloween— Only Without The Costumes
Apocalypse Today, Tomorrow & The Next Day This morning, I was on a People for the American Way board call and Jamie Raskin started the...
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Howie Klein
Mar 7, 20236 min read
Doug Mastriano Dragged the Pennsylvania GOP Down With Him Last Year. Now He Wants To Run For Senate
Democrats Can't Believe Their Good Fortune Republicans faired poorly in Pennsylvania last cycle. The banner race for the open red Senate...
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Howie Klein
Mar 4, 20234 min read
CPAC Is Now TPAC-- MAGA, MAGA, MAGA... And They Feel Fine
Even before she made her viciously ugly anti-trans CPAC speech, former RNC Chair Michael Steele noted that Marjorie Traitor Greene “has...
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Howie Klein
Mar 2, 20232 min read
There’s Just One Serious Extremist Movement In America— The MAGA Movement (ie- The Republican Party)
That’s some video to use to launch a campaign! If, like me you’re a fan of Orwell’s 1984 and Animal Farm, Huxley’s Brave New World,...
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Howie Klein
Feb 22, 202322 min read
There Were People Like This When I Was 20 Too--They're As Much A Waste Of Time Now As They Were Then
It's Unlikely Anything Good Will Come Out Of Wyoming This Century Marjorie Traitor Greene tweeted that “everyone” she talks to agrees...
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Howie Klein
Feb 19, 20235 min read
Which Republican Party Craves Suicide More-- Michigan's Or Arizona's?
Trump Broke The GOP Some would argue that the Michigan GOP— riven by civil war between conservatives and fascists and flat broke—...
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Howie Klein
Feb 18, 20237 min read
Republicans Prepare To Pick Their 2024 Senate Nominees
None of those revelations coming out of the Fox-Dominion trial are surprising anyone, right? I mean we all knew what Fox News was all...
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Howie Klein
Jan 30, 202316 min read
The Scourge Of White Christian Nationalism-- The Revenge Of The Morons
Trump Didn't Invent Them-- But He Figured Out How To Manipulate Them It’s weird being the same age as old people. Some people might...
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Howie Klein
Jan 30, 20234 min read
Hitler, Timothy McVeigh & Kyle Rittenhouse Were All "Lost Boys"-- Are Their Any MAGAts Who Aren't?
Tom Nichols has been writing about the Lost Boys syndrome for years and he was on it again yesterday, in an Atlantic column he called The...
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Howie Klein
Jan 26, 20235 min read
McCarthy Is Worried That Too Many Of His Members Are Too Ignorant To Make A Rationale Decision
What a coincidence! I asked my A.I. buddy a question that doesn’t appear to have been especially welcome: “Which members of the 118th...
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Howie Klein
Jan 22, 20236 min read
Is Trump's Support Really Leaky-- And Does His Team Know How To Plug The Leaks?
Yesterday, in his New York Magazine column, Ed Kilgore wondered aloud if Trump could run to DeSantis’ left in 2024. Trump will never have...
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Howie Klein
Jan 17, 20233 min read
In Essence, Is Solomon Peña Any Different From Any Other MAGA Candidate Anywhere?
Why Did The New Mexico GOP Back Solomon Peña? New Mexico Republican Solomon Peña was pretty typical MAGA candidate— an angry, aggrieved...
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Howie Klein
Dec 20, 20224 min read
The Bad Guys! Looks Like The 2 QAnon Queens Have Broken Up!
This morning started for me with a powerful new Prevail piece by Greg Olear, Know Your Bad Guys, revolving around Putin's criminal...
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Howie Klein
Dec 14, 20227 min read
Even Republicans Hate Republicans... And There's Every Reason In The World That They Should
The Monmouth poll released this morning gaged favorability for the top congressional leaders, among other things. McConnell is easily the...
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Howie Klein
Dec 1, 202210 min read
MAGA: The GOP Totally Deserves The Worsening Plague Of Locusts It Is Living Through
If The Republican Party Had A Soul, It Would Be Trump Geoff Duncan, Georgia’s very conservative Republican Lt. Gov, stood on line for an...
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Howie Klein
Nov 20, 20222 min read
MAGA Extremism May Work Fine In Marjorie Traitor Greene's Backward District, But That's About It
Trump Destroyed GOP Hopes In New Hampshire Republicans had a great chance to to win the New Hampshire Senate seat. Democrat Maggie Hassan...
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Howie Klein
Nov 11, 202210 min read
The GOP's Future Looks Grim-- Thanks To You-Know-Who... And The Party's Embrace Of Him
Yesterday’s Peter Wehner’s Atlantic column seems to have started out with the title “More MAGA Than Ever” but when I went back to re-read...
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Howie Klein
Oct 30, 202214 min read
A Scholarly Book Published In 1950 Foretold The Rise Of Donald Trump— And The Descent Of The USA
The F Scale, 2022 Last week, the Canadian Broadcasting Company updated a report from April on a study from 1950 about what kind of people...
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Howie Klein
Oct 13, 20224 min read
If Republicans Win Control Of Congress…
According to Norm Ornstein, if the Republicans-- he doesn’t call them fascists in print— take over the House, “the country will face a...
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Noah
Oct 13, 20221 min read
Midnight Meme Of The Day! How To Spot Mental Illness 101.
by Noah Not long ago, I saw a Trump 2024 Nazi flag like these caught in a tree like a plastic garbage bag along I-287 in New Jersey....
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