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
May 610 min read
Not Counting Genocide— Is That Even Possible— Are Things That Bad? They Will Be If Trump Is Elected
I was involved in the efforts to end the war against Vietnam, both on campus and beyond. I lived it. So did Bernie. Mitch Landrieu, on...
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Howie Klein
Jan 264 min read
Elderly Presidential Candidates Need To Be Extra Careful In Picking A Running Mate
But Neither Biden Nor Trump Is Doing Anything Of The Sort Presidents should choose a running mate based on something none of them ever...
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Howie Klein
Oct 23, 20236 min read
How Disastous Of A Mistake Was It To Have Not Charged Trump With Treason? Is It Too Late?
Over the weekend, the Charleston Post and Courier ran an editorial urging South Carolina Senator Tim Scott to drop out of the...
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Howie Klein
Oct 19, 20234 min read
Trump's Serious Primary Opponents Are All Running Out Of Money
Who'll Be The First To Call It Quits? Tim Scott? Pence? One of Trump’s primary strategies was to encourage as many not-Trump opponents as...
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Howie Klein
Sep 16, 20236 min read
75% Of Americans Say They Support The UAW Strikers-- Elon Musk, Tim Scott & Trump Oppose It
Mr. Empathy doesn’t just own X; he also owns Tesla. Although Musk has now been embarrassed enough to restore the UAW’s Twitter...
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Howie Klein
Sep 9, 20237 min read
Opposition Research On 2 Minor Candidates: Tim Scott (Closeted Gay) And Vivek Ramaswamy (Crooked)
Nikki Haley's SuperPAC Is Quietly Feeding The Media The Dirt “Oppo research” or opposition research— used to discredit other candidates—...
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Howie Klein
Aug 31, 202311 min read
Tim Scott And George Santos Are Both Gay Republicans— But VERY Different Gay Republicans
When Santos’ Performance Was Over Virtually No One Clapped Early this morning, in the silliest story of the day, Axios writer Alex...
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Howie Klein
Aug 27, 20234 min read
Tim Scott Did So Badly At The Debate That He Should Throw In His Red MAGA Hat
Or Maybe He Should Take Up Singing About Truth If Trump was a Black preacher, desperately trying to stay in the closet, he’d sound like...
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Howie Klein
Aug 22, 202313 min read
The Few Non-MAGAts In The GOP Are Desperate To Find Hope Where There Is None-- Not A Glimmer
Every poll of Republican voters says the same thing— as the YouGov-CBS pollsters noted over the weekend: “Right now, the Republican Party...
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Howie Klein
Aug 7, 20237 min read
For Republicans, There Is No Alternative To Señor T
Mike Pence Is Dead To Them... And DeSantis Soon Will Be Too The Reuters headline is weird: Mike Pence does not rule out being witness for...
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Howie Klein
Jul 30, 20234 min read
Meatball Ron's Blatant Racism Is Making A Lot Of People Uncomfortable--Even Conservative Republicans
Michigan’s 10th district, north of Detroit, saw one of the closest races of 2022— and one the national parties and national media paid no...
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Howie Klein
Jul 29, 20237 min read
Soon We— And Trump— Won’t Have Meatball Ron DeSantis To Kick Around Any More
I was in college at Stony Brook on the North Shore of Long Island. The big money on the North Shore was relatively quiet. If you wanted...
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Howie Klein
Jul 24, 20235 min read
Desperate To Find Someone Who's Not Trump Or DeSantis, Mainstream Media Suggests... Tim Scott
Don't Follow The Establishment Down The Tim Scott Rabbit Hole I might have missed it but has anyone asked Tim Scott to comment on...
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Howie Klein
Jul 16, 20236 min read
Indictments Haven't Hurt Trump's Polling-- Will They? Will Republicans Vote For Him If He's In Jail?
No one knows what’s going to happen this coming November— let alone in November, 2024. Still, there are hints and trends worth examining....
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Howie Klein
Jun 25, 20238 min read
The Party Of Racism And Bigotry
The Party Of Trump Is Not The Party Of Lincoln Chris Christie’s denunciations of Trump sound good— to Democrats. But he has virtually no...
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Howie Klein
May 24, 20236 min read
The Sad GOP Field— Almost As Pathetic As The Democratic Field
Larry Ellison has a net worth north of $125 billion. He’s almost 80 and will be roasting in hell for eternity soon enough. Too bad his...
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Howie Klein
May 20, 20234 min read
Biden May Be Pretty Awful But... None Of The Republicans Look Electable
In case you’ve forgotten, Ramesh Ponnuru is a right-wing activist, Republican Party propaganda agent and editor of the National Review....
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Howie Klein
Mar 4, 20237 min read
Trump Believes DeSantis Doesn't Have What It Takes To Stand Up To His Bullying Tactics... We'll See
There were 5 public surveys I saw this week polling the GOP presidential primary. They were all basically bad news for Meatball Ron....
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Howie Klein
Feb 13, 20234 min read
Tim Scott Is Well Known In DC And In Right-Wing Donor Circles... So Why Not Run For President?
They’re both Republican presidential wannabes but don’t mix up Rick Scott, a fascist career criminal from Florida, and Tim Scott, a...
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