The Nature Of Conservatism Is Inherently Anti-Intellectual, Grounded In Paranoia & Victimhood
Yesterday, Tom Nichols wished aloud that we could rescue “our love of country”— patriotism— from those who have hijacked it. He found...
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Howie Klein
Jun 25, 202316 min read
The Insurrection, Coup, Civil War… Whatever It Is/Was, In Russia Grabbed All The Front Pages
Is It The End For Putin Anyway? Yesterday we woke up to reports that the Wagner Group was in a full-scale rebellion and that Russia...
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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 12, 20236 min read
Santos Is A Shoddy, Off The Rack Version Of Trump Who Couldn't Quite Pull It Off
There'll Be A Movie About Trump-- But About Santos? Unless he’s even stupider than he comes across, the dance George Santos, or whatever...
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Howie Klein
Mar 20, 20236 min read
Will Tomorrow Be A Circus? A Bloodbath? A Big Fat Zero? With Trump It's Always About The TV Ratings
Trump is the only one talking about an indictment tomorrow. The authorities have said nothing and even Trump's lawyers have said he's...
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Howie Klein
Mar 11, 20235 min read
People Say DeSantis Is Autistic. If It’s True, It’s The Only Interesting Thing I’ve Heard About Him
On Friday the NY Times assigned a top political reporter, Michael Bender, to cover Ron DeSantis’ visit to Iowa, billed as a stop on his...
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Howie Klein
Mar 8, 20238 min read
I Bet Murdoch Wishes He Could Cut Tucker Carlson Loose Before He Tanks Fox Any Further
Sloppy Riot Revisionism At Fox It’s been a bad couple of days for Tucker Carlson... although maybe not inside his own bubble. I wonder...
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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
Travails & Self-Inflicted Tribulations Of The Speaker-In-Name-Only
Last night, Tom Nichols discussed how McCarthy is paying off his debts to the GOP’s extremist fringe, “by engaging in petty payback,...
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Howie Klein
Jan 10, 20234 min read
There's No Reason To Believe That There Will Ever Be A Single Good Day In The 118th Congress
Jonathan Bernstein reported this morning that though McCarthy “made many concessions” to win over the votes of the fascist fringe, one...
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Howie Klein
Dec 14, 20225 min read
What's Worse, Members Of Congress Selling Out To SBF Or Members Of Congress Plotting A Coup?
Ted Budd Was Doing Both At The Same Time! Remember when the DOJ seized Pennsylvania insurrection Scott Perry’s phone back in August?...
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Howie Klein
Dec 1, 20225 min read
Let Me Be The First To Say It: Never-DeSantis
Yesterday, Tom Nichols noted that really opposing Trumpism means opposing “everything Donald Trump has done to American civic life, and...
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Howie Klein
Oct 6, 20228 min read
I Don't Know If Trump Is Conspiring With America's Enemies. Do You Think He Would?
Saudi Arabia’s new prime minister— murderous fascist crown “Prince” Mohammed bin Salman— made it completely clear that he is an enemy of...
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Howie Klein
Sep 8, 20225 min read
MAGAts Are A Threat To The American Way Of Life-- I Doubt The Fever Will Break When Trump Is Dead
Is there some difference between the MAGA Movement and the QAnon movement? I suppose there may been some MAGAts who don’t buy into QAnon...
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Howie Klein
Aug 31, 20226 min read
Conservative Ex-Republican Tom Nichols Doesn’t Think The GOP Is A Fully Fascist Party Yet
The Atlantic’s Tom Nichols, wrote yesterday that he “long resisted using the word fascism to describe Donald Trump and his Republican...
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Howie Klein
Jun 17, 20226 min read
Mike Pence A Hero? Or Was Trump Correct When He Called Him A Pussy And A Wimp?
Just over a week ago, Jonathan Last penned a piece for The Atlantic, Mike Pence Is An American Hero. A better title might have been, "The...
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Howie Klein
Jun 17, 20223 min read
Select Committee Hearing #3-- Villain Du Jour-- John Eastman
John Eastman seems like an especially odious character, one of the villains-- although a clownish one-- of Trump's coup attempt....
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Howie Klein
Oct 13, 20218 min read
Killing Our Democracy?
Tom Nichols is a elite right-wing-- but non-fascist-- professor at the U.S. Naval War College who, in 2016, described himself as a...
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Howie Klein
Jul 15, 20217 min read
J.D. Vance's Political Obit
If Ohio is supposed to be a swing state, it sure wasn't living up last year. Trump beat Biden 3,154,834 (53.3%) to 2,679,165 (45.2%),...
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Howie Klein
May 28, 20215 min read
Most Republicans Seem Perfectly Fine With The Party's New QAnon Brand
Leave it to David Frum, the Bush speech-writer and warmonger who came up with the term "axis-of-evil" to gin up war hysteria in the U.S.,...
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