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Howie Klein
Oct 179 min read
Will Trump Close The Gender Gap: Not A Chance— Women Know Just What He His
Nearly 60% Of Women Have A Negative View Of Trump Before Trump sat down in front of a completely stacked Fox audience of ladies who like...
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Howie Klein
Sep 297 min read
For A Political Party, Is It Worse To Be A Freak Show Or Worse To Be Led By Weirdos?
Yesterday, we looked at the Crazy Tour JD Vance is on with crackpot religioinist nut Lance Wallnau. Molly Olmstead, writing for Slate...
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Howie Klein
Sep 125 min read
How Much Damage Will Taylor Swift's Endorsement Do Trump— Both Psychically And Electorally?
I had a boss once who was very much like Trump— around the same age. Also born and raised in New York City, SS— we’ll call that— couldn’t...
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Howie Klein
Aug 145 min read
We’ve Gone From George Washington’s “I Cannot Tell A Lie” To Señor T’s “I Cannot Tell The Truth”
Trump has no incentive to even try to appear truthful. I think the ship has sailed on that one already. Everyone either knows he’s an...
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Howie Klein
Mar 411 min read
The Evangelical Church Has Traded Jesus For Trump— And They Were Absolutely Made For Each Other
Hatred, Bigotry & Greed Are Much Easier Than Unconditional Love In the last post, we briefly reprised Adorno’s work on the authoritarian...
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Howie Klein
Jan 235 min read
Do You Want A Crueler, Xenophobic, Exclusionary, More Bigoted America? Vote For Republicans
Also More Violent Ironically, the part of Brooklyn I grew up in— Gravesend— was one of the most Democratic neighborhoods in America… and...
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Howie Klein
Nov 24, 20239 min read
Lou Reed: "You Can't Depend On The Goodly Hearted, The Goodly Hearted Made Lamp-Shades And Soap"
The Evangelics-- Finally Trump Was Right About A Group Do you think America evangelicals actually know they and their co-religionists are...
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Howie Klein
Aug 1, 20238 min read
How Many Times Has Trump Been Indicted— More Than Every Other President Combined
The Attack On The Capitol “Was Fueled By Lies” And this time Jack Smith wasn’t fooling around with some Trumpeteer in the Florida sticks....
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Howie Klein
Jun 19, 20235 min read
There Is A Difference Between Trump & DeSantis-- Embedded In That Much Evil, It's Inconsequential
This weekend, DeSantis was in Douglas County a deep red, tiny rural backwater in western Nevada that abuts California. There are about...
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Howie Klein
Apr 27, 20234 min read
Most Normal Americans See MAGA For The Scam It Is-- Republicans Don't Though
According to NBC News polling, the MAGA movement is widely unpopular, just 24% of Americans having a positive view of it. 45% of...
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Howie Klein
Apr 1, 20236 min read
What Are The #NeverTrumpers Saying About The Indictment?
Before we get into the actual NeverTrumpers, let’s look at how George Soros was responding yesterday to the anti-Semitic attacks on him...
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Howie Klein
Mar 15, 20238 min read
To Understand The Modern Republican Party, You Must Grok The Intense Sense Of Fear And Grievance
The GOP-- A Toxic Brew Of Fear & Desperation, Anger & Indignation, Feelings Of Betrayal & Victimhood, Crying Out For Vengeance On Monday,...
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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 6, 20237 min read
The Future Of The Republican Party Is Dismal, Deservedly So
Peter Wehner— a former speech-writer for Reagan and the two Bushes— had a serious warning for his party yesterday: Trump, who he termed...
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Howie Klein
Dec 19, 20227 min read
Ever Get The Feeling Trump's Going To Get Away With It All-- And That Most People Don't Really Care?
Who’s the bad guy, Trump, the Republican elected officials who enable him or the Republican voters? Yeah, I know; all of the above. But...
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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
Aug 28, 20227 min read
No Republican Should Be Surprised By The Gleeful Barbarism Of The GOP— It Was Always Headed There
Guernica is a Basque town near the Bay of Biscay in northern Spain. Founded in 1366, it became world famous on April 26, 1937 when, at...
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Howie Klein
Jun 11, 20224 min read
Forget About GOP Politicians For A Moment-- What Is Wrong With The People Who Vote For Them?
Yesterday we looked at how the rate of premature deaths are higher in red counties than blue counties. This morning a trio of Wall Street...
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Howie Klein
Mar 3, 20225 min read
Could Russia's War Against Ukraine Bring Americans More Together?
Putin's regime, which claims-- for domestic consumption-- that its war against "neo-Nazis" in Ukraine is going swimmingly, is blocking...
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